Margarita Höhenrieder writes of her new release: "After just a few notes
on this exceptionally fine Pleyel grand piano in Kellinghusen, north of
Hamburg, in a collection of Eric Feller’s, I found myself plunged into a
different century. This pianoforte was built in Paris in about 1855 and
professionally restored using historical materials and methods. It is
absolutely uniform with the instrument that Chopin possessed, and is of
typically French elegance – in sound as well as in appearance. It
reflects the soul of the Romantic era. Apart from that, it offers an
authentic testimony to the sound of the instruments that Fryderyk Chopin
and Robert and Clara Schumann played. Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck,
gave his daughter a Streicher grand, built in Vienna. Personally, I saw
this Pleyel as the ideal instrument on which to play the works of Robert
and Clara Schumann as authentically as possible while also matching as
precisely as possible the exacting demands they place on piano
technique. The constant aspiration in today’s music world towards ever
larger and more versatile instruments and architecturally and
acoustically challenging auditoria meant that I was in search of a
convincingly authentic sound for compositions written in and around the
1830s, while also looking out for a suitable performance location –
comparable to a mid-19th-century salon and differing from today’s
concert halls."
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