Bernd Glemser makes a welcome return to the Naxos recording studio with this splendid performance of Schumann’s Symphonic Studies, Op. 13 and the Fantasie, Op. 17 the third volume in the complete Schumann solo piano edition. Schumann’s music for piano contains supreme examples of the Romantic style. Much of his work for the instrument is in the form of suites comprising short, poetic pieces, each expressing a different mood, though he also composed three large scale piano sonatas and other significant works including the two presented on this disc. `His playing is chiefly enjoyable for its unmannered simplicity, its respect for the composer´s own wishes. And how eloquently the Arabeske and the Andantino of the G minor Sonata repay his sensitive understatement. As for the latter´s brisker movements, he captures their turbulent urgency without a moment´s loss of textural clarity. … There is never any doubt of Glemser´s awareness of the music behind the teeming notes.´ Gramophone on Schumann Piano Works Vol. 1 (8550715).