Peter Toohey, piano 

Melba Hall, Live December 2013

Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder ohne Worte Opus 67

Peter Toohey with The University of Melbourne Orchestra.
Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G, Maurice Ravel.
Live 2013 

Adagio Assai

Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann	Op. 20			Clara Schumann
Known as one of the most distinguished pianist in the Romantic era, Clara Josephine Schumann composed these variations based on Bunte Blätter, Op. 99 by her husband Robert Schumann.  This work marks as one of Clara’s last compositions for the piano. She presented to him for his last birthday spent with the family in 1853. Schumann attempted suicide the year after in 1854 and was sent to a sanatorium near Bonn. Clara was separated with her husband until days before his death in 1856.  Johannes Brahms, after seeing the unpublished score, in return was inspired and composed his own Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9, dedicating them to Clara.

Clara Schumann - Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20

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