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Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Robert Schumann, plus works by lesser-known composers including Doreen Carwithen, Henri毛tte Bosmans, Ruth Gipps and Susan Spain-Dunk.

In the second concert this week broadcast live from St David鈥檚 Hall in Cardiff, pianist Danny Driver performs Schumann鈥檚 epic Fantasie in C. This work was composed in the late 1830s, a period when Schumann was uncertain and anxious about his relationship with Clara Wieck, given her father鈥檚 hostility towards him. Friedrich Wieck had banned the two from seeing each other, and Schumann revealed that the first movement of the Fantasie was a lament for her. The concert begins with music by the Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas, Pi猫ce pour piano, composed in 1997, and is followed by a selection of preludes from 1917 by the Dutch composer Henri毛tte Bosmans.

Danny Driver, piano

Jolas: Pi猫ce pour piano
Bosmans: Zes preludes, No鈥檚 3-6
Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17

Produced by Luke Whitlock