About This Song
About "Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9: No. 2, Pierrot" by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Pierrot steps forward in Schumann’s Carnaval—a sad clown with a crooked smile. Michelangeli plays him with brittle delicacy, each note a tear in the costume. The tension is between mockery and melancholy: a puppet whose strings might snap. Tender, unsettling, brief.