Recordings and publications
“À La Clara”: Thinking Through Clara Schumann’s Hands, Keyboard Perspectives 9 (2016) with accompanying animation project:
Communing with the Shadows of the Schumann-Piatti Circle: A Performer’s Reflections on Reverential Playing and ‘Reading Between the Lines’ Schumann-Studien 14 (2023), Robert-Schumann-Haus, Zwickau.
My work on Clara Schumann has also been featured in The New York Times: Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman (Thomas May, September 2019)
Down with romanticism: recital 1869 (backlash music, 2023)
Down with Romanticism: Recital 1869 — my debut recording with cellist David Eggert — pays tribute to, and explores the legacy of two of the 19th-century’s greatest artists: pianist Clara Schumann and cellist Alfredo Piatti. Drawing inspiration from the collection of historic concert programs of Clara Schumann, housed at the Robert-Schumann-Haus archives in Zwickau, David and I crafted a unique recital program that features celebrated masterpieces in historical arrangements for cello and piano made by musicians of the Schumann/Piatti circle, speckled throughout with improvised interludes and rarely heard accompanied recitations of poetry by Franz Schubert and Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as the Beethoven sonata for piano and cello Op. 102 No. 1.
around baermann (leaf music, 2023)
A love letter to the tumultuous music of the early 19th-century and to one of its star artists: Heinrich Baermann. Recorded with my longtime collaborator and friend, clarinetist Maryse Legault, this album includes pieces written by, for, or during Baermann’s heyday. This CD represents the culmination of years of research and Maryse’s ever-persistent dream of hearing this music played on period instruments.
“An exceptional disc. Well worthy of investigation by any one attracted to the historical clarinet – or indeed the exceptionally talented young performers.”
-Brian Robins, Early Music Review, October 2023
“Most convincing is the Andante con Moto from Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante, Op.48, where Legault assumes the proper role as diva, reaching high and low for expression. Bravo also to Loftus for making such tasteful decisions on all the tracks. The Grand Duo is her tour de force.”
-Max Christie, The Whole Note, September 2023
virtuosa (leaf music, 2022)
This recording with Infusion Baroque is a celebration of musical women over the age and their accomplishments in the face of adveristy. The CD encompasses 15 works that were either composed or performed by women, and was recorded on historical instruments.
The CD includes a comprehensive booklet and companion website which includes more information pertaining to the women featured on the recording, providing cultural and socio-economic context for the women’s lives as well as for their music.
“Loftus’ fortepiano gets a chance to shine on the Grande Sonate, Op. 11 by German piano prodigy Hélène Liebmann (1795-1869 [..]”.
- Anne E. Johnson, Early Music America, December 2022