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With works by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and August Klughardt

Robert Schumann's late chamber music works deliberately present themselves in a small form and delicate, introverted emotionality. The program spans an arc from the Three Romances for oboe and piano op. 94, which he presented to Clara as a Christmas gift in 1849, to the Fairy Tales op. 132, which were composed shortly before he was committed to a mental hospital. Clara Schumann was not only a busy pianist, but in her wonderfully playful Three Romances op. 22 she shows what talent she had as a composer. August Klughard's Schilflieder also transports listeners to the mysterious world of German Romanticism through the musical illustration of Nikolaus Lenau's poems of the same name.

Instrumentation: Luc Durand (oboe) / Kari Träder (viola) / Zuzanna Hutek (piano)