The album cover reminds me of Monk by the Sea, an oil painting that the German romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) created in 1810, the year when Schumann was born. Schumann has two sides of his personality: young Schumann, who was filled with musical, literary inspirations and dreams, and later Schumann, who was consumed by madness and darkness. Pianist Kun-Woo Paik looks like a traveller who is about to step towards the sky. When you take a closer look, you realize that the landscape isn’t real but a wall. Here the sky, a symbol of universe and infinity, is restraint and restriction.
Paik is a real romanticist who believes in love. Picasso once said it took a lifetime to paint like a child. He also has never lost the boy in him. For this, he became a philosopher. A boy and a philosopher.

坂本龍一が2020年12月12日、無観客のオンラインピアノソロコンサート＜Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 12122020＞を開催。ライブ演出をRhizomatiks、撮影監督をZakkubalanが担当し、都内のスタジオから世界同時配信を行った。このライブはアーカイブなしの一夜限りの配信だったため、二度と視聴することができない貴重な内容となった。そして遂にこの音源を、一年後の同日2021年12月12日にリリースすることが決定。 今夏8月にはこのライブ音源より「Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - version 2020」が、TBSテレビ『終戦76年プロジェクト つなぐ、つながる』キャンペーンのテーマ曲として使用された。また、今年3月末に発売した『2020S』BOXセットでのみ聴くことができた、無印良品のCM曲「MUJI2020」もライブの終盤に演奏し収録されている。坂本龍一のベスト選曲とも言えるセットリストであり、最新ライブ音源。 ●ライナーノーツ: 大貫妙子氏 (音楽家)・藤原帰一氏 (東京大学大学院法学政治学研究科教授)・ZAK氏 (サウンドエンジニア)

Live Recording: Konzerthaus Berlin, 12/2018
℗ 2019 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Stralauer Allee 1, 10245 Berlin
© 2019 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Liner Notes in English and German.
Made in the EU • Total Time: 67:00 (CD 1) • 68:38 (CD 2) • 38:15 (CD 3)
A&R, Production Manager – Malene Hill
Bassoon – Emily Hultmark, Richard Skinner (2)
Cello – Judith Herbert, Martin Loveday, Stephen Orton, William Schofield
Clarinet – Nicholas Cox (2), Tom Lessels
Composed By – Ludwig van Beethoven
Design – Anja Hoppe
Double Bass – Lynda Houghton, Markus Van Horn
Executive-Producer – Ute Fesquet
Film Producer – Bernhard Fleischer, Tanja Dorn
Flute – Laura Jellicoe, Michael Cox (3)
Horn – Stephen Stirling, Timothy Brown (2)
Liner Notes – Christoph Vratz
Liner Notes [English Translation] – Fiona Orpin
Music Director, Piano – Jan Lisiecki
Oboe – Rachel Ingleton, Tom Blomfield
Orchestra – Academy Of St Martin In The Fields*
Other [Manager Scores & Publishing] – Dorothea Schlegel
Photography By, Cover – Christoph Köstlin
Producer – Stephan Flock
Timpani – Tristan Fry
Trumpet – Mark David, William O'Sullivan
Viola – Alexandros Koustas, Ian Rathbone, Martin Humbey, Milena Simovic
Violin [Violin II] – Alicja Smietana*, Fiona Brett, Jennifer Godson, Mark Butler, Martin Burgess, Winona Fifield
Violin [Violin I] – Gabrielle Painter, Harvey De Souza, Katie Stillman, Matthew Ward (3), Raja Halder, Robert Salter
Violin [Violin I], Leader – Tomo Keller

1958年萨尔斯堡音乐节现场录音
舒曼：C大调幻想曲OP。17；贝多芬：叙事曲OP。126；勃拉姆斯：奏鸣曲OP。5；
编号： C570011B

Recordings: München, Hochschule für Musik, Großer Saal, 9 & 10/1993 (op. 26); 1/1994 (op. 82);
Hamburg-Harburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, 10/1991 (op. 18;
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musica Théatre, 9/1992 (op. 28)
℗ 1994 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
Art Direction – Nikolaus Boddin
Composed By – Robert Schumann
Design [Cover Design] – Holger Matthies
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Klaus Behrens (tracks: 14 to 16), Rainer Hebborn (tracks: 10 to 13), Wolf-Dieter Karwatky (tracks: 1 to 9, 17 to 21)
Engineer [Tonmeister, Balance Engineer] – Gernot Von Schultzendorff (tracks: 14 to 16), Helmut Burk (tracks: 1 to 9, 17 to 21), Karl-August Naegler (tracks: 10 to 13)
Executive-Producer – Christopher Alder
Producer [Recording Producer] – Arend Prohmann (tracks: 14 to 21), Christian Gansch (tracks: 1 to 9), Karl-August Naegler (tracks: 10 to 13)

Nelson Freire made his recording debut with the Brahms F minor sonata in 1967. Now, half a century later, he returns to this monumental work.
The perfect repertoire at the perfect moment in his career: still in his prime at 72, Nelson Freire invests Brahms’ music with unrivalled colour and imagination.
This recital presents a portrait of Brahms across his entire oeuvre for solo piano, culminating in a selection of the celebrated late intermezzi.
This is Freire’s first Brahms recording since the 2007 Gramophone Record of the Year concerto set with Riccardo Chailly: still the reference recording.

The culmination of a 20-year journey and his most personal project yet.
Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations stand alone in the piano literature as a work of unique artistry and brilliance. Lang Lang first began exploring this masterpiece more than 20 years ago and presents this record as the outcome of a long personal and emotional journey. Marking a new stage in Lang Lang's artistic development, it is the project of a lifetime.
“I’m now 38 and, while that’s not old, I think the time was right for a new stage in my artistic development,” comments Lang Lang. “I’ve moved into new terrain with the Goldberg Variations and really immersed myself fully in this project. My goal as an artist is to keep becoming more self-aware and more knowledgeable, as well as to keep offering inspiration to others. It’s an ongoing process, but this project has taken me a little further along the path.” Lang Lang

One of the greatest Beethoven Piano Concerto cycles of recent times, from Abbado and fellow countryman Maurizio Pollini, returns to the catalogue at an attractive price (3-for-2). A brand-new recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto fills out the package, with Maestro Abbado conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (about whom Abbado has said, "[This] young orchestra's devotion to music [has] deeply impressed me.") and a dynamic trio of soloists.