23 OCT 2025 - We are back! If you have been following us over the last few years, you will know that the last 2 months have been rough. We website was practically not loading. Sorry for the mess. We are back though and everything should run smoothly now. New servers. Updated domains. And new owners. We invite you all to start uploading torrents again!
TORRENT DETAILS
Clara & Robert Schumann - Works For Piano - Margarita Hohenrieder (2019( [24-96]
20. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 "Grand": I. So rasch wie möglich 06:13
21. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 "Grand": II. Andantino 04:43
22. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 "Grand": III. Scherzo. Sehr rasch und markiert 01:38
23. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 "Grand": IV Rondo. Presto 05:30
Margarita Höhenrieder writes of her new release: "After just a few notes on this exceptionally fine Pleyel grand piano in Kellinghusen, north of Hamburg, in a collection of Eric Feller’s, I found myself plunged into a different century. This pianoforte was built in Paris in about 1855 and professionally restored using historical materials and methods. It is absolutely uniform with the instrument that Chopin possessed, and is of typically French elegance – in sound as well as in appearance. It reflects the soul of the Romantic era. Apart from that, it offers an authentic testimony to the sound of the instruments that Fryderyk Chopin and Robert and Clara Schumann played. Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck, gave his daughter a Streicher grand, built in Vienna. Personally, I saw this Pleyel as the ideal instrument on which to play the works of Robert and Clara Schumann as authentically as possible while also matching as precisely as possible the exacting demands they place on piano technique. The constant aspiration in today’s music world towards ever larger and more versatile instruments and architecturally and acoustically challenging auditoria meant that I was in search of a convincingly authentic sound for compositions written in and around the 1830s, while also looking out for a suitable performance location – comparable to a mid-19th-century salon and differing from today’s concert halls."