A little over ten years ago, the Swiss record label Claves set out to record Robert Schumann’s complete works for piano music. Rather unusually, the label has used not one, but three pianists for the recordings thus far: Finghin Collins (Vols 1 and 3), Francesco Piemontesi (Vol 4), and Cédric Pescia (Vols 2, 5 and now Vol 6). I hope Pescia will ...

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Not many pianists would spend the time learning the hideously difficult Hexameron, the Liszt hotchpotch variations with contributions by his composer friends, one of whom was Chopin. Together with the First Polonaise and to some extent the Second Ballade it is Liszt at his most extrovert and bombastic. Thankfully Moog knows how to make music out...

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