Gabriele Carcano SCHUMANN Humoreske - Davidsbündlertänze

Italian pianist Gabriele Carcano was the recipient of a Borletti - Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award in 2010 and has been described as “a sculptor of sound” and an “aesthete” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung after his Munich debut in the famous Herkulesaal. Since then Carcano has appeared in many of the world’s major venues in recital and with major orchestras. 

He was invited by Mitsuko Uchida to the Marlboro Festival four times and Uchida is one of the great pianists who has tutored Carcano - the others are Richard Goode and Alfred Brendel.

Brendel and Carcano worked closely on the preparation of this all Schumann programme. Gabriele will also appear on a second Rubicon album this year in partnership with violinist Stephen Waarts in a programme of Bartok and Schumann.

His debut album, an all Brahms recital for Oehms Classics, was highly praised by the BBC Music Magazine and Radio 3 Record Review, as well as Fonoforum and NDR in Germany, winning a Supersonic award in Pizzicato magazine.

Stephen Waarts / Gabriele Carcano BARTÓK - SCHUMANN

‘From the first note of Stephen Waarts’ Brahms G major sonata I was hooked, and within a few bars I was moved to tears’ (The Strad)

‘Stephen Waarts gave an outstanding debut at the Kennedy Centers’s Terrace Theater...Waarts showed an uncommon, preternatural sense of tonal color and lyrical beauty on the instrument’ (The Washington Post)

‘Mr Waarts showed himself a technically accomplished and musically insightful artist..’ (The New York Times)

Stephen Waarts’ innate and individual musical voice is establishing him as a firm favourite with audiences. With a voracious appetite for repertoire, Stephen has already performed over thirty standard, as well as rarely performed violin concertos, and is a passionate chamber musician.

For his debut recording Stephen has chosen the rarely played Schumann 1st violin sonata and the Three Romances, and the demanding 1st sonata by Bartok, and his Hungarian Folktunes. He is accompanied by fellow Rubicon artist Gabriele Carcano.