- Artist:
- Antje Weithaas
Robert Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio
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Release date: 30 October 2026
“You have to have the courage to embrace darkness and, with Schumann, to leap from heaven to hell in a tenth of a second,” says violinist Antje Weithaas. This two-CD set presents Schumann’s complete works for piano trio: the three Piano Trios, Opp. 63, 80 and 110, and the Fantasiestücke, Op. 88. Throughout these works, passion and intimacy, lyrical inwardness and restless energy remain in constant dialogue. Begun in 1842 as Schumann’s first composition for piano trio and revised before its publication in 1850, the Fantasiestücke offer a concentrated, poetic counterpart to the three numbered trios.
The new Deutsche Grammophon recording features violinist Antje Weithaas, cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and pianist Dénes Várjon. All three have established international solo careers while keeping chamber music at the centre of their artistic lives. Their shared musical language, shaped in concert and deepened in the studio, allows them to follow every sudden turn of mood, bringing Schumann’s hidden ideas and the shifting dialogue among the three voices into focus. Released in the year of Antje Weithaas’s 60th birthday, the album offers a portrait of Schumann’s music as powerful and vulnerable, restless and deeply personal.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
1. I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft
2. II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch
3. III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung
4. IV. Mit Feuer
Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80
5. I. Sehr lebhaft
6. II. Mit innigem Ausdruck – Lebhaft
7. III. In mäßiger Bewegung
8. IV. Nicht zu rasch
CD 2
Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110
9. I. Bewegt, doch nicht zu rasch
10. II. Ziemlich langsam
11. III. Rasch
12. IV. Kräftig, mit Humor
Fantasiestücke, Op. 88
13. I. Romanze. Nicht schnell, mit innigem Ausdruck
14. II. Humoreske. Lebhaft
15. III. Duett. Langsam und mit Ausdruck
16. IV. Finale. Im Marschtempo