Ancient emotions relive on Andrea Botticelli’s fortepiano

TORONTO – Her debut album marks a series of firsts: it is the first commercial recording on the Graf fortepiano owned by the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in Canada; it is the first ever recording of Robert Schumann’s “Novelletta in F sharp minor”, op. 21 No. 8, on the fortepiano; it is the first album on the home label Céleste Music, and, most likely, the first solo fortepiano album recorded by a Canadian artist.  (more…)