Performed by Melanie Lançon, Bede Hanley and Stephen De Pledge at the CMNZ concert, 'Fantasy & Romance', Auckland Concert Chamber, 3 August 2021.
Melanie Lancon, Bede Hanley, Stephen De Pledge Photo: RNZ/Tim Dodd, Kelley Eady-Loveridge
Stephen De Pledge's arrangement of Schumann's Opus 1, the fiendishly difficult set of variations originally for piano.
Schumann dedicated the work to "Pauline, Comtesse d'Abegg", a fictional character of his imagination. The name 'Abegg', however, provides the musical motif on which the variations are based: A-B♭-E-G-G.
Recorded by RNZ Concert, Auckland Concert Chamber, 3 August 2021
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay
