Robert Schumann Franz Liszt: At The Piano - Schumann: Piano: Score

17 well-known original pieces in progressive order of difficulty with practical comments-Schumann was a poet at the piano and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as Träumerei ( Reverie ) Von fremden Ländern und Menschen ( Of foreign lands and people ) or Vogel als Prophet ( Thebird as prophet ). His whole oeuvre exudes a sense of poetic freedom making him the Romantic composer par excellence. Whether in his easiest pieces for children from his Album for the Young or in the more demanding Papillons wecan hear Schumann s own distinctive voice everywhere a voice whose many registers can be experienced in this selection which ranges from the easy to the moderately difficult.