Composers: Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Kate Moore, Nicole Murphy, Jennifer Higdon, Lera Auerbach
Performers: Muses Trio
Catalogue Number: CD Baby and musestrio.com

Celebrating Clara is given to us by the Muses Trio, an all-female group consisting of violinist Christa Powell, cellist Louise King, and pianist Therese Milanovic. The Clara is of course Clara Schumann, the great pianist and composer who became the wife of Robert Schumann. Robert’s attitude to women composers was typical of his age: they belong with the Kinder, and in the Kirche or the Küche. But Clara’s music is in no way inferior to Robert’s, and indeed in terms of...