CLARA SCHUMANN (1819-1896): Soirées musicales, Op. 6, Nos. 1 and 2 (Toccatina and Notturno), Souvenir de Vienne, Sonata in G Minor, 3 Romances, Op. 11, 4 pièces fugitives, Op. 15, Romanze, Op. 21, No. 1.

Description: These rich romantic miniatures (and, of course, the sonata) benefit greatly from the timbre of the fortepiano from the Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna - the very piano Clara performed on in 1870 at a recital celebrating the opening of the Small Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Eugenie Russo (1868 Streicher & Son fortepiano).