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Claire Huangci plays Schubert
For her 10th anniversary with Berlin Classics, US pianist Claire Huangci presents herself and her label with a weighty recording project, Schubert’s late sonatas D 894, D 958, D 959 and D 960, as well as the Three Piano Pieces D 946 and a selection of songs from Schwanengesang. She accompanies the baritone Thomas E. Bauer in four of the songs, and plays two in an arrangement by Franz Liszt. To be heard in a box with 3 albums under the title META. META stands for the importance of Schubert’s music in Claire Huangci’s personal and musical life.
After recordings of Bach, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Scarlatti and many more, the versatile American has made a name for herself above all as an interpreter of Mozart and Chopin. Soon the 9-year-old prodigy passed her first concerts in her home country before she went to the renowned Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. She put the finishing touches to her performance at the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts. First prizes at international competitions followed before she won the Mozart Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in 2018. Since then, Huangci, who now lives near Frankfurt, has been one of the much-concerting young stars in Europe and the USA and “captivates everyone with her stupendous technique.”(hr2)
Her heart was set on Schubert at an early age. Still at the Curtis Institute, she was told, as for many a young musician, that she still had to gain maturity for the music of the great Romantic, especially for his late works. Yet it is Schubert’s compositions, which she has played since her earliest youth, “that show my development, that reflect unconscious emotions”, as she writes in the booklet. Schubert’s music is “the music I would like to take with me to a desert island. … Schubert has accompanied me through all times”, especially the late sonatas, which are at the centre of the META box.

Schubert - Meta Claire Huangci

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Claire Huangci

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Franz Liszt

Franz Schubert

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Publication date

20.10.2023

META

Claire Huangci plays Schubert

For her 10th anniversary with Berlin Classics, US pianist Claire Huangci presents herself and her label with a weighty recording project, Schubert's late sonatas D 894, D 958, D 959 and D 960, as well as the Three Piano Pieces D 946 and a selection of songs from Schwanengesang. She accompanies the baritone Thomas E. Bauer in four of the songs, and plays two in an arrangement by Franz Liszt. To be heard in a box with 3 albums under the title META. META stands for the importance of Schubert's music in Claire Huangci's personal and musical life.

After recordings of Bach, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Scarlatti and many more, the versatile American has made a name for herself above all as an interpreter of Mozart and Chopin. Soon the 9-year-old prodigy passed her first concerts in her home country before she went to the renowned Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. She put the finishing touches to her performance at the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts. First prizes at international competitions followed before she won the Mozart Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in 2018. Since then, Huangci, who now lives near Frankfurt, has been one of the much-concerting young stars in Europe and the USA and "captivates everyone with her stupendous technique."(hr2)

Her heart was set on Schubert at an early age. Still at the Curtis Institute, she was told, as for many a young musician, that she still had to gain maturity for the music of the great Romantic, especially for his late works. Yet it is Schubert's compositions, which she has played since her earliest youth, "that show my development, that reflect unconscious emotions", as she writes in the booklet. Schubert's music is "the music I would like to take with me to a desert island. ... Schubert has accompanied me through all times", especially the late sonatas, which are at the centre of the META box.