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Yannick Nézet-Séguin is clearing up an old fairy tale: the claim that there were no first-rate female composers in music history. In 2022, at Lucerne Festival, he presented the African-American Florence Price, in 2023 the early-deceased Frenchwoman Lili Boulanger — and now it's the turn of the German Romantic Clara Schumann, with her First Piano Concerto, which she tackled at the age of thirteen. Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who caused a stir last summer with Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody, is the ideal pianist for this furious early work. Her recording with Nézet-Séguin, which was recently released, was called the "best interpretation" of the concerto by Bavarian Radio. Nézet-Séguin is considered a "musicians' conductor", a conductor who reaches the heart of the musicians and inspires them to top performances. He proved this already with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, most recently with a moving performance of Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, which combined urgency with overwhelming beauty of sound. The continuation is now with the Seventh in E major: What a gift for the composer's 200th birthday!
