Fanny Davies & Adela Verne - The complete recordings

Of the few pupils of Clara Schumann to make recordings, Fanny Davies (1861-1934) was by far the most important. She studied for two years with the great pianist and very much saw herself as a disciple. She went on to have a significant career and was praised for her noble and unsentimental approach to the music of Robert Schumann in interpretations that were said to resemble Clara’s very closely. The three recorded works she left us are thus some of the most important documents of 19th-century pianism we have, and we are delighted to return them to the catalogue in new transfers.

APR5648  77 minutes 51 seconds
‘If the thought ‘not another Schumann Piano Concerto’ crossed your mind, then let it perish! This is a performance for the ages, as fresh and spontaneous as many modern performances—and in some respec ...
‘Absolutely fascinating … a window on to two different eras in musical history, really, because we’ve got the world of Robert and Clara Schumann in the 1840s, when he wrote his Piano Concerto for ...