Martin Ivanov - Robert Schumann: Fantasiest�cke, Novelletten

Bulgarian pianist Martin Ivanov, who attained great international reputation for his debut album with the waltzes by Frederic Chopin, dedicates his second CD to the music of Robert Schumann. The Fantasy Pieces Op. 12 as well as the Novelletes Op. 21 were composed during a period in Schumann's life which was affected by the death of his mother, the forced separation from Clara, and the estrangement from his father. Much of the cheerfulness and much of the deadly seriousness in this music has this biographical background; also, Schumann probably always thought of his beloved Clara as a possible interpreter of these works. Martin Ivanov accomplishes once again to boast with supreme technical accuracy and deep emotional intuition.