“As a tremendous gale raged Tuesday outside, GRAMMYAward-winning-pianist Michelle Cann told a vivid tale in words and music of the love story of Clara and Robert Schumann and the complex friendship they had with Johannes Brahms. Inside the tent at the iconic Castle Hill on the waterfront in Newport, her musical program opened with three pieces from Brahms’s Klavierstücke Op 118 which he dedicated to Clara in 1893. As a set these pieces run the gamut from the bold and passionate to expressions of calm, intimate, introspective and even enigmatic…”
– Stephen Martorella, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
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