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Masterclass: Carolin Widmann on Schumann Violin Sonata no.2

2018-11-21T09:24:00

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Interpretational insights into the first movement of a work written by a musical genius with an increasingly unsettled mind

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Something special happened when I was in the studio recording the Schumann sonatas with my pianist, Dénes Várjon. We were so in paradise over those two days that I didn’t care if anybody liked it or not. Every time I hear two notes of Schumann I’m pulled in right away. When I touch his music I feel so close to him and this special language…

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