Steven Isserlis’s new album takes a single year - 1851 - as its starting point, the date of the French Érard piano played by Connie Shih, and of the Great Exhibition at which the instrument may well have been played, before exploring some of the music written in that year by a circle of musical friends, at the forefront of which was Robert Schumann.

Tracklist:
01 Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft (Schumann, arr. Isserlis) 12'55
02 Sehr lebhaft (Schumann, arr. Isserlis) 4'04
03 Leise, einfach (Schumann, arr. Isserlis) 5'34
04 Bewegt (Schumann, arr. Isserlis) 10'18
05 Romanze – No 4 of 5 Salonstücke, Op 28 (David, arr. Isserlis) 3'58
06 Allegro espressivo e appassionato (Moscheles) 9'21
07 Scherzo 'ballabile': Allegretto quasi allegro (Moscheles) 5'55
08 Ballade 'in böhmischer Weise': Andantino (Moscheles) 6'56
09 Allegro vivace, ma non troppo (Moscheles) 7'04
10 Sängers Trost – No 1 of Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op 127 (Schumann, arr. Isserlis) 2'20
11 Méditation sur le premier prélude de piano de J S Bach 'Ave Maria' (Bach & Gounod) 5'06