The first movement of The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 - R. Schumann. In this series we really discover the nature of the work and delve into it in detail. All technical concerns are clearly mapped on to the specific musical content of the piece, and we arrive at a whole new understanding of this somewhat enigmatic work.
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
We are beginning our journey into decoding Schumann
When you hyper orchestrate, the soul appears
Getting that sound we need requires a technical backing
Alan and Luba are looking into very deep emotions, feeling of despondency in the main theme
