Kreisleriana

What does it mean for Schumann's Kreisleriana to be romantic? Is it the violent contrasts, the capricious mood swings, the fragmentary architecture, the raw and unfiltered expression? Is it the breathtaking lyricism? Or is it the ghost of the tormented Kapellmeister Kreisler that haunts this work and blurs the boundaries between music, literature and psychological portraiture? The acclaimed virtuoso Paolo Giacometti brings both poetry and psychoanalysis to Kreisleriana and Kinderszenen, performed on a magnificent Érard from 1838, born in the year these works first saw the light of day.