2009 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik Award, and now Matthias Kirschnereit has turned his interest to the piano works of Robert Schumann to mark the 200th birthday of the poetic Romantic.
To this end, he has chosen works covering the composer s entire career, while paying special attention to Schumann's short, fleeting miniatures. From the early flamboyance of the Papillons through the composer s last, posthumously published work, these scenes are a perfect example of an important part of Schumann's oeuvre.
