This disk features historic performances by the great Swiss pianist, Adrian Aeschbacher playing Schumann's intense Romances, plus a fabulous interpretation of Schumann's magnificent Davidsbündlertänze.

27 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Traditional, WORLD: Western European



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Though not well-known in the early 21st Century, those with long memories, and those who collect classic Deutsche Grammophon releases will know of the great Swiss pianist, Adrian Aeschbacher (1912-2002). His large discography includes works of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. During a very active concert career he performed together with such world-class figures as Edwin Fischer and Wilhelm Furtwängler, among others.

KASP Records is pleased and honored to present the first release in many years of these recordings, originally made in the 1950's. But it is not primarily for historic reasons that these performances of Schumann and Schubert are once again being presented to the public. It is because they offer some of the very finest recordings ever made of these works.

As Aeschbacher's teacher, Artur Schnabel, was an unsurpassed Beethoven player, so Adrian Aeschbacher was a Schumann pianist par excellence. His Davidsbündlertänze shows a unique understanding of this huge work, and displays, with uncanny ability, the dramatic contrasts of Florestan, the firebrand, and the dreamy Eusebius, the opposing poles of Schumann's imagination.

And as a Schubert player Adrian Aeschbacher leaves nothing to be desired. His Moments Musicaux are simple, yet deep, intense, when necessary, but always idiomatic.