« Tuning in and Tuning out » New Paths to Classical Music: Clara Wiek Schumann und das Klavier

In der heutige Sendung sprechen wir über das Leben und die Musik von Clara Wiek Schumann - Wunderkind, Pianistin, Lehrerin, Mutter & Frau. Sie war mit Robert Schumann verheiratet und war auch gut befreundet mit mehreren Musikern ihre Zeit, unter anderem Johannes Brahms. Wir denken nach Fragen wie - in welcher Kontext hat sie gearbeitet ? Und wie wird sie heute erinnert ?

This show not only thinks about who, how and why we can or should listen to classical music today but also who speaks about it and performs it and how this can be challenged and understood. What perspectives or histories are forgotten from the canon? It looks at the broader context of a composer's work and looks around at what was happening at the time it was written, what has happened since and how we could listen and interpret it today. Where did this music emerge from, what was it doing musically and why could that be interesting ? It eschews traditional ways of talking and educating about classical music and looks for a subversive way round the side door and into the concert hall.