Pianist Jean-Pierre Armengaud is considered a leading interpreter of French music and a specialist in Impressionist and Expressionist repertoire. He has been director for musical programming at Radio France and is associate professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University. Following his acclaimed recordings of the complete piano works of Debussy, Armengaud embarks on a project to record all of Clara Schumann’s solo piano music.

Volume 1 includes the Romances Op. 11 and Op. 21, Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16, Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20, and other works by the most famous of all 19th-century piano virtuosos.