Robert Schumann

Recording Robert Schumann's complete works for solo piano is a crazy adventure. Recording it during fifteen concerts is a challenge to be overcome, fraught with pitfalls to be avoided. It is also a long inner journey that pianist Dana Ciocarlie happily embarks upon.

Like a painter who feels the need to spread out his work before him, canvas after canvas, Dana Ciocarlie fully embraces the need to build something that will stand the test of time... whereas her usual role ends at the end of a single performance. Her means of expression is interpretation, and her universe is Schumannian.

“You have to have an immense love for Schumann to embark on a project of this nature.”

Dana Ciocarlie feels at home in Schumann's musical world, inhabited by passion, torment, literary allusions, humor, and spontaneous élan.

This perpetual, hallucinatory struggle with fate is what is so magnificent about Schumann.

This world premiere of the complete live recording of Robert Schumann's solo piano works was only possible thanks to a titanic effort that is sure to go down in history!