Laura Granero combines her unconditional love for the piano with a deeply rooted passion for women wrongly ignored by the traditional canon. Her list of favourites includes Clara Wieck-Schumann, whose Notturno from her opus 6 explores the tension between the public nature of the virtuoso concert performance and the internalised world of the nocturne, and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, whose teacher Ludwig Berger put her only one step away from the pioneer of the nocturne, John Field. Along with icons such as Chopin, Liszt and Czerny, Granero favours lesser-known masters including Stephen Heller – a close friend of Berlioz – Chopin’s pupil Adolf Gutmann and the prodigy Carl Filtsch, who studied with Clara’s father Friederich Wieck and with Fryderyk Chopin himself.
Program
F. Chopin: Nocturnes, opus 32, no. 1, 2 | Nocturne in C minor, KK IVb, no. 8 | Nocturnes by S. Thalberg, C. Wieck-Schumann, F. Mendelssohn-Hensel, S. Heller, A. Gutmann, C. Filtsch, F. Liszt & C. Czerny
Performers
Laura Granero, piano (Pleyel 1843, Bechstein 1860)
