Danny Driver - Schumann: Novelletten & Nachtstucke

In this new album Danny Driver brings his impeccable pianism, consummate style and imagination to Schumann�s Novelletten and Nachtstucke, less well-known sets from his extraordinary output for the piano.Schumann wrote Nachtstucke, a set of four character pieces, upon the death of his brother, and would have entitled it �Corpse Fantasia� were it not for Clara�s intervention. The eight pieces of the Novelletten form what is at once the largest and the least known among Schumann�s major piano cycles. The music itself is of consistently high quality (years later, Schumann himself still regarded this among his most successful works), and clearly written in an exultant mood.