This CD boxed set, a retrospective from our focus on composers during the Festival in 2010, is part of a wonderful tradition in the Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr. With Volume 26 we are now releasing, for the sixth time in a row, a set of three CDs with recordings from previous season. In 2010 we celebrated the 200th birthdays of Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin.

To give their respective anniversary celebrations a worthy finishing touch, we now dedicate an entire CD to each one of these two major composers.

Contents:
CD 1 Robert Schumann [77:23]
- Davidsbündlertänze, op.6
Adam Laloum (piano)
  
- Waldszenen op.82
Eric Schneider (piano) 
  
- Theme and five variations, supplement to: Symphonic Etudes op.13 
- Der Vogel als Prophet' from: Waldszenen op.82 No7
- Fugue No. 3 in G minor from: Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H for pedal piano op.60
- Intuition (Encore)
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter (piano)

CD 2 Frédéric Chopin [75:49]
- Rondo for two pianos in C major op.post.73a (1828)
- Variations in D major on a Theme by Thomas Moore for piano four hands (1826)
Maki Namekawa (piano), Dennis Russell Davies (piano)
  
- Polonaise fantaisie in A Flat major op.61
Jie Chen (piano)
  
- Scherzo No.1 in B minor op.20
- Scherzo No.2 in B Flat minor op.31
- Scherzo No.3 in C Sharp minor op.39
- Scherzo No.4 in E major op.54
Amir Tebenikhin (piano)
  
CD 3 [34:12]
George Benjamin
- Two or four (for piano two hands)
Lorenzo Soulès (piano)
  
- Two or four (for piano four hands)
Lorenzo Soulès (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
 
Luke Bedford
- Give Him His Hat (for piano two hands)
Fabian Müller (piano) 
  
- Give Him His Hat (for piano four hands)
Fabian Müller (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
 
Marco Stroppa
- Le marteau fantôme (for piano two hands)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) 
  
- Le marteau fantôme (for piano four hands)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano) 
 
- Imbalances I (for piano two hands)
Fabian Müller (piano) 
  
- Imbalances II (for piano four hands)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano) 
 
Jörg Höller
- Solo play (for piano two hands)
Tamara Stefanovich (piano) 
  
- Duo play (for piano four hands)
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)  
 
- [astronauts] (for piano two hands)
Tamara Stefanovich (piano) 
  
- [scene] (for piano four hands)
Lorenzo Soulès (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)