Aaron Pilsan - Schumann: Kreisleriana & Geistervariationen - Widmann: Elf Humoresken

Schumann composed Kreisleriana in April 1838, at the age of 27, exactly the same age as Aaron Pilsan today : �The youthful thing that I can identify with in Kreisleriana is its spontaneity. If I had to describe the piece, I would use the German word for crazy, �verr�ckt�, which doesn�t just mean crazy, but also to be disconnected from reality. So, crazy, imaginative and intimate� There is a huge connection between these two German composers, as J�rg Widmann was inspired by Schumann�s music a lot and even his musical language is very similar, even though their styles are obviously very different. The starting point for Widmann�s music is from feelings, from the emotions and sentiments and that is where there is a similarity, but not only there. He even quotes Robert Schumann in his tenth Humoreske, taking a bar directly from Schumann�s Geistervariationen.