I have the music of Robert Schumann on my mind today. Such beauty, such pain, such passion! I guess that this is music expressing the composer’s love for his wife, Clara…
Schumann had to wait until he finally received Clara’s father’s permission to marry her…
The composer instructs the performers to play this piece “Mit Leidenschaflichem Ausdruck”. For me, the English equivalent is “With painful, or passionate expression”
The piano part and the violin score are interwoven with eachother, and it is a reward for my ears…
Here are Martha Argerich and Itzhak Perlman expressing this music passionately for you:
