In the Quiet The Clara Schumann Sessions Album
In the Quiet: The Clara Schumann Sessions was a studio album by Jacob Keller devoted to three piano works by Clara Schumann. Deutsche Grammophon released the album as part of Jacob’s interpretive classical discography.
Overview
The album paired Clara Schumann’s Piano Sonata in G minor and Three Romances, Op. 11, with her Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20. Its concentrated program distinguished it from Jacob’s later In Her Own Name project, which documented a twelve-concert live cycle across Clara Schumann’s complete surviving catalog.
Background and Recording
Jacob recorded the sonata’s movements in one continuous take without edits, preserving the work’s uninterrupted emotional progression. The album formed an early, self-contained statement of the attention to Clara Schumann’s work that he later developed on a much larger scale.
Repertoire
- Clara Schumann—Piano Sonata in G minor
- Clara Schumann—Three Romances, Op. 11
- Clara Schumann—Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20