Three of Robert Schumann's most important works for piano - radiant melodies from the Romantic era inspired by conjugal love, fatherhood and related domestic joys.

22 MP3 Songs in this album (71:13) !
Related styles: CLASSICAL: Romantic Era, EASY LISTENING: Mood Music



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âI want to inspire others to enjoy and think about music,â says German pianist Hinrich Alpers. âMusic is one of the most direct and powerful ways of communicating, and listeners depend on honest and inspired performers.â

Alpers studied with Bernd Goetzke at the Hannover Hochschule für Musik und Theater and earned his Graduate Diploma from The Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. Today he teaches piano, improvisation and music theory at the Institute for Highly Gifted Children at the University of Music and Drama of Hanover. As recipient of the 2008 Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award, Alpers made his Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, about which the The New York Sun wrote â⦠music making of the highest order. Remember this name: Hinrich Alpers.â

In addition to becoming Laureate of the Honens International Piano Competition in 2006, Alpers received First Prize at the Concours Grieg (Norway), the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Prize (Germany) and the Mozarteum Salzburg Summer Academy Award (Austria). He was named a Steinway Artist in 2007.

âWhile being completely different from one another, these three pieces by Schumann are among those works of music that are dearest to me,â says Alpers. âThey embody all the ups and downs that human and artistic life can bring about.â