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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 - Études sur un thème de Beethoven, WoO 31 & Geistervariationen, WoO 24

Claire Désert

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Mirare

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From one recording to the next, French pianist Claire Désert continues her exploration of Schumann’s piano works with a new album focussed on the variation genre. She explores the manifold, elusive moods found in the “Symphonic Studies”, the “Etudes in Variation form on a Theme of Beethoven” and the “Geistervariationen” (Ghost Variations), like a diary of the composer. From a tribute to Beethoven to the ultimate variations composed right before sinking into the Rhine, it is all Romanticism that is sung by Schumann's piano, with its breaks and ideals. © Mirare
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Humoreske, Bunte Blätter & Etudes symphoniques | Klavierwerke & Kammermusik - IV

Eric Le Sage

Classical - Released March 27, 2008 | Alpha Classics

The hardest thing about performing Schumann's piano cycles isn't playing the notes. Though the notes are often exceedingly difficult -- the combination of virtuosity and sensitivity is as difficult to bring off in its way as Liszt's combination of virtuosity and velocity -- playing them correctly is only one aspect of Schumann's difficulties. And the hardest thing about performing the German Romantic's piano cycles isn't about interpreting the individual pieces in the cycles. Though the individual pieces run the gamut from deeply intimate to overtly passionate and from wildly excited to profoundly dejected, sympathetically interpreting them, too, is only one aspect of Schumann's difficulties.As Eric le Sage recognizes in this two-disc set of four of Schumann's piano cycles, the most difficult thing about performing them is holding all the exceedingly difficult and deeply poetic individual pieces in the cycles together as a single unified work. Le Sage realizes the difficulties involved because he has so clearly triumphed over them. In the most technically challenging movements of the Etudes symphoniques, le Sage plays the notes with gusto, and in the most interpretively demanding movements of Humoreske, he delves below the surface beauty to the soulful poetry beneath. But best of all, le Sage holds these works together. By molding ritardandos between movements, grasping the tempo relationships between movements, and sculpting groups of movements into larger structural units, le Sage forges each cycle into an indissoluble whole greater than the sum of its poetic and virtuosic parts. Recorded in full, clear digital sound by Alpha, the performances on this two-disc set should be heard by anyone who reveres the German Romantic's music.© TiVo
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My Rachmaninoff

Alexander Krichel

Classical - Released March 24, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Ravel, Debussy & Fauré: Piano Works

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released April 28, 2014 | Warner Classics

Distinctions Diapason d'or
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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Papillons & Carnaval

Samson François

Classical - Released August 28, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Relaxing christmas

Philippe Jaroussky

Classical - Released November 24, 2017 | naïve classique

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Schumann : Etudes symphoniques & Carnaval

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Classical - Released September 1, 2006 | Warner Classics International

Pierre-Laurent Aimard earned a reputation as a pianist unafraid of new music, and he usually achieved high praise for his recordings of twentieth century music. In the early 2000s, however, he returned to older repertoire, with mixed results. This recording of Schumann's Études Symphoniques and Carnaval is one of his better efforts. The Symphonic Etudes are generally considered one of Schumann's more reasoned works, an exercise in composition as much as a set of exercises for the pianist. Aimard, however, focuses on the temperament of the etudes rather than the ins and outs of Schumann's thoughts on thematic development. It's the careful attention to Schumann's Florestan and Eusebius characters -- named in one of Schumann's early titles for the work "Etudes im Orchestercharakter von Florestan und Eusebius" -- that makes Aimard's performance work. He does always bring out the melody and always makes it move and feel like a singer's interpretation, particularly in variations such as in Etude No. 2, which has a Schubertian, pulsing, chordal accompaniment. Aimard controls his energy and enthusiasm in the more outgoing variations to make every phrase count, just as he brings delicacy and beauty to the more inward-looking "Posthumus Variations" inserted as a group between Etudes No. 7 and No. 8. The finale could stand to have even more of the boldness that he puts into Etude No. 6. Carnaval is all about character, and Aimard plays with each dance a little more freely than he does the etudes. For the most part his playing is drier (i.e., with less pedaling), than most pianists', making the set less truly dance-like and more stylized in nature. His interpretations range from swirling excitement to hazy dreaminess, but some may find the more relaxed pieces too vague. Aimard chooses to play the Sphinxes, the two four-note ciphers that are the keys to Schumann's themes in Carnaval, and they stick out like a twentieth century serial piece in the middle of the others. Aimard has a tendency to overthink these two popular Schumann works, but there are many reasons to appreciate his interpretations. The recording's sound is less dimensional than desired for these temperamental works.© TiVo
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Robert Schumann: Waldszenen, Symphonische Etüden & Arabeske

Martin Helmchen

Solo Piano - Released November 1, 2012 | PentaTone

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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Toccata & Carnaval

Gyorgy Cziffra

Classical - Released October 1, 2021 | Warner Classics

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Schumann by Yves Nat: Complete Piano Works

Yves Nat

Classical - Released July 25, 2022 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Emil gilels, piano : scarlatti • debussy • schumann

Emil Gilels

Classical - Released February 1, 2023 | Ermitage Records

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Schumann: Kreisleriana & Etudes Symphoniques

Vlado Perlemuter

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Nimbus Records

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Schumann: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3

Robert Schumann

Classical - Released February 14, 2009 | Claves Records

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Etudes Symphoniques Op. 13 - Fantasie Op. 17

Naum Grubert

Classical - Released September 5, 2011 | Piano Classics

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Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 & Études Symphoniques, Op. 13

Nick Van Bloss

Classical - Released November 1, 2015 | Nimbus Alliance

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Eternity

Herbert Schuch

Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | naïve

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