Schumann’s second sonata for violin and piano was written a few weeks after the first. The composer declared: ‘I didn’t like the first violin sonata, so I wrote a second, which I hope turned out better’. Clara certainly liked it, finding it ‘wonderfully original, with a depth and magnificence that I have hardly ever known before’. Also set in a...

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La Jeune Critique à décerné le Prix « coup de cœur » au pianiste norvégien Joachim Carr pour son magnifique récital des quarts de finale. Joachim Carr est le candidat qui a soulevé le plus d’enthousiasme au sein de la Jeune Critique, émue par son toucher délicat et sa musicalité.   www.clara-haskil.ch - 13.09.2013 Listen online now  

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