Reflection features Grimaud performing one of the most popular piano concertos of all time - Robert Schumann's romantic Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 - with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Staatskapelle Dresden. The disc was recorded on what would have been the Schumann's 165th wedding anniversary.
Along with the famous Brahms Rhapsodies op. 79, Nos. 1 & 2, other tracks include the Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano op. 38 with Truls Mark, the Norwegian cellist and Grimaud's long-time chamber music partner. The album also marks Grimaud's debut collaboration with mezzo-soprano Annie Sofie von Otter, who joins her songs by Clara Schumann.
Selections:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
1-3. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 54
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
4-5. Two Lieder to poems from Friedrich Ruckert's Liebesfruhling
6. Am Strande
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
7-9. Sonata for Piano and Violoncello no. 1 in E minor, op. 38
10-11. Two Rhapsodies for Piano Op. 79