Constance Prince

A piano, an intimate voice, an inner universe taking shape in sound. With this concert, Costanza Principe leads the audience into the heart of Romanticism through some of Robert Schumann's most emblematic pages.
The programme juxtaposes the Kinderszenen, op. 15, and the Three Fantasy Pieces, op. 111: two collections that, despite their apparent fragmentary dimension, draw a coherent path between memory, imagination and restlessness. In the Childhood Scenes, the gaze rests on a childhood filtered through memory, suspended between simplicity and melancholy; in the Fantastic Pieces, the writing becomes freer and more visionary, shot through with contrasts and emotional tensions.
Schumann does not construct linear narratives, but suggests images, states of mind, flashes of thought. It is music that moves by allusions, that asks the performer to become a sensitive medium rather than a protagonist. This is the setting for the research of Costanza Principe, a pianist capable of combining rigour and imagination, attention to detail and poetic breath.

In collaboration with The Vittorio Polli and AnnaMaria Stoppani Foundation and The Victor de Sabata and Aldo Ceccato Music Library