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Danny Driver

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Danny Driver, known for his extensive repertoire and intellectually thoughtful program design, takes on two sets of variations in C-sharp minor by Schumann and Faur. By pairing these two masterpiecesboth written in the same key and featuring a sophisticated fusion of the variation form and virtuosic techniquethe program highlights the continuity and evolution of variation techniques throughout the 19th century.In Schumanns *Symphonic Etudes*, the seven additional variationsincluding the five published posthumously, as well as the third and ninth etudes, which the composer omitted from his final draft in 1852are regrouped and repositioned in the central section of the performance. By structuring them as a kind of quasi-arabesquesuggesting literary inspiration and the formal digressions found in his other worksthe recording brings out the works fantastical and narrative qualities from a unique pe