As a winner of numerous national and international youth competitions, Robert Neumann (born 2001) was awarded with the International Classic Music Discovery Award 2017. In 2018, the Jury of the SWR (radio broadcasting corporation in Southwest Germany) chose Robert as the "SWR New Talent". For his debut CD at SWRmusic, Robert was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK Young Artist of the Year 2021. The young pianist made his orchestral debut with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra when he was eight, and since then he has appeared with other orchestras, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, German State Philharmonic Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchestra, Praga Philharmonic Camerata and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. For his second album, Robert Neumann chose two works which can easily be placed side by side and that are both close to the pianist's heart. Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana is about a character from several tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition describes walking from one work of art to the next. Both are programme music pieces with somewhat comparable ideas but, as Neumann puts it: "One idea deals with a real character, the other one doesn't [...]. And I think both show in an exemplary manner how flawlessly and also in different ways a great Romantic cycle can be structured, formed.

Tracklist:

I. Ã„uÃŸerst Bewegt [02:25]
II. Sehr Innig Und Nicht Zu Rasch [09:59]
III. Sehr Aufgeregt [04:19]
IV. Sehr Langsam [04:14]
V. Sehr Lebhaft [03:16]
VI. Sehr Langsam [04:16]
VII. Sehr Rasch [02:23]
VIII. Schnell Und Spielend [04:19]
Promenade [01:49]
I. Gnomus [04:07]
II. Old Castle [05:11]
III. Tuileries [01:03]
IV. Bydlo [04:29]
V. Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells [01:14]
VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle [02:35]
Promenade [02:01]
VII. the Market-Place at Limoges [01:23]
VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) - [02:41]
VIII. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua [02:19]
IX. the Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) [03:29]
X. the Great Gate at Kiev [05:15

UPC: 747313913787
Label: Swrmusic
Release Date: 1.12.24
Format: CD

Mussorgsky / Schumann / Neumann - Robert Neumann Plays Schumann & Mussorgsky (CD)