Schumann's Music, Today and Always - Daniel Levy

The pianist Daniel Levy has recorded the vast majority
of Robert Schumann’s piano works. Here he shares his thoughts about the composer:

What he declares is the pure truth: “In Music, the soul feels in its homeland”. That happens with his music, because what he transmitted to us is entirely what he lived. And that is how he moves us and will carry on moving us to the arcane core of our being. He teaches us to refine our feelings and is an educator in real emotions. In his dreams he makes us see another world, close to us, where Good and Harmony reign.

His rhythms and his harmonic complexities reflect the movements and pulsations of life, with dense and subtle chromaticism. They bring us closer to listening and seeing the light, without mediation or filters.

He is a lover of the ineffable and is able to narrate the unattainable to us. His aesthetic is that of a poet. And what is sublime is that the answers to our most intimate longings are already contained in his musical questions.

He transmits secrets to us through whispered harmonies suspended in time, which go directly to our hearts.

He is the master of fragments, of ‘stück’ (pieces), and within them he is able to reflect an interior landscape and natural perfumes, with the electricity of an instant.

In his Lieder he amazes everyone, bequeathing to our intuition that unanswered mystery – whether he put music to a poem or whether both were born at the same time.

The more we listen to and experience his works, the more our hearts pulsate to one of his melodies that is always born in the present, without traces of the past.

He knows the bridge that links music to the beyond and he brings it closer to us with his bravery. He makes it perceptible and then returns it to the invisible. There are no veils covering his intuition.

He has listened to angelical voices and he transcribed them to the stave. In the theme of the second movement of the Violin Concerto and in his final work, the variations on the theme that Schubert and Mendelssohn dictated to him, he placed us in front of the pioneer clairaudience of the musician.
This certainty of genius makes many smile skeptically, and that is how such sarcasm reveals severe ignorance, against which he battled – like David – all his life until the end, to remove Philistinism from human existence.

His greatest maturity was not only to have loved children and young people dearly, fully understanding their fantastic world, but also to have allowed his inner child to live within himself and to have expressed it in his music.

He is the most contemporary of musicians, because he lives in rhythm, he pulses outside of temporary limits and thus revolutionises consciences.

For all this and for much more, Robert Schumann’s music today.

SCHUMANN SERIES – A SET OF 12 RECORDINGS BY DANIEL LEVY

An outstanding series of recordings dedicated to Robert Schumann, a composer that Levy seems to identify with especial conviction.
Daniel Levy’s interpretations emerge with strength and Romanticism, fulfilling the emotional, intellectual and spiritual challenges of Schumann’s music.

A vital addition to Schumann’s Discography.
Fanfare Magazine, USA

The Schumann Series is available as a 12 ALBUM SET or individually in the format of your choice.

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Listen to Daniel Levy playing Schumann

For this unique occasion that celebrates Robert Schumann’s piano music, Daniel Levy wished to add to the works already contained in the series with a set of high-quality audio recordings from his own personal archive that are not available and have been out of catalogue for years. This will certainly be of interest to those who have not heard these recordings, which feature five hours of music with excellent performances of the following works: