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Schumann: Genoveva

Kurt Masur

Opera - Released May 1, 2015 | Brilliant Classics

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Schumann & Brahms Lieder

Elina Garanca

Classical - Released November 6, 2020 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanča has been known primarily as an operatic singer. This 2020 release on Deutsche Grammophon marks her debut on recordings in song repertory, although she and accompanist Malcolm Martineau performed these songs often in the months leading up to the recording, and there's nothing tentative about the performances. It's not saying too much to observe that Garanča here, more than in operatic recordings, brings the great Christa Ludwig to mind, although Ludwig sang lieder at all stages of her career. There's the gradual way in which Ludwig's voice matured over time, the sense of discovering things in it that one never knew were there. The overall richness of the voice, the depth in the lower register, the effortless power at the top: all these aspects will sound familiar to those who remember the German soprano, but none of it means that Garanča uses vocal beauty to skate across the meanings of the texts. She has a dramatic soprano's insight into Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42, which brings out the arc of the cycle rather than letting it disintegrate into a set of individual songs. The individual Brahms lieder, mostly familiar numbers, have a real freshness here. Garanča's voice soars through it all, and it remains a wonder. May one hear more song repertory from this artist!© TiVo
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Schumann: Fantasie, Arabeske, Kinderszenen

Fabrizio Chiovetta

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Aparté

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There isn't a daring new approach to Schumann proposed by this set of familiar works, but that may be the appeal that put the album on classical best-seller charts in early 2023. The Fantasie in C major, Op. 17, was worked by Schumann as it developed into a tribute to Beethoven, and the references to Beethoven's late style, which Schumann, among just a few others, understood at the time, are multiple. However, it was also a chronicle of the composer's at-the-time forbidden love affair with his girlfriend, Clara Wieck, itself illustrated with a little quote from Beethoven's song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98. Schumann marked the first movement "durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen" ("to be played fantastically and passionately throughout"), but it is also a densely polyphonic and intricately structured work, of which Liszt said, "I mean... to work at it and penetrate it through and through." Pianist Fabrizio Chiovetta, without obvious effort, holds these elements in balance. He is equally effective in the more Olympian Arabeske, Op. 18, and in the Kinderszenen, Op. 15, where each little scene of childhood is beautifully realized without extreme tempo variations that distort the nature of the work. The program, as a whole, places the listener amidst the ferment of Schumann's creativity in the mid-1830s, and Aparte's sound from the Salle Gustav Mahler in Dobbiaco, Italy, is another strong draw. A fine outing from Chiovetta.© James Manheim /TiVo
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For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud

Classical - Released September 8, 2023 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schumann: Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana

Martha Argerich

Classical - Released January 1, 1984 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Mein Traum. Schubert, Weber, Schumann

Pygmalion

Opera - Released October 7, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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One morning in 1822, Schubert wrote down an enigmatic text in which all his ghosts seem to take shape: wandering, solitude, consolation, disappointed love. Inspired by this dreamlike narrative, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion and Stéphane Degout have devised a vast Romantic fresco, combining resurrection of unknown treasures with rediscovery of established masterpieces. © harmonia mundi
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C. Schumann & C. M. Weber: Piano Concertos

Luisa Imorde

Classical - Released May 19, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Relatively unknown until a short time ago, the Piano Concerto in A minor, composed by Clara Wieck at the age of fourteen, long before she became Frau Schumann, today enjoys immense popularity. The number of recordings multiplied, while her other works dragged on behind. Her career as a composer was shattered by the macho attitudes of the time, which inevitably considered that women belonged in the kitchen or raising children. While living with an extremely depressed husband, she fell pregnant eleven times in just thirteen years. Consequently, Clara Schumann had very little time left to compose...Coming from a family of musicians, the young German pianist, Luisa Imorde, approaches Clara Schumann's Concerto opus 7 from an almost Beethovenian perspective, skipping the pure virtuosity of the writing to better extract gravity, subtle transitions, and permanent reinventions. Her programme is completed by five Lieder (by Robert), written for solo piano by his wife, and four pieces by Carl Maria von Weber, a composer whom the latter played throughout her long career as a pianist after Schumann's death.It is from this historical perspective that this album ends with Weber's Concerto No. 1 in C Major. Luisa Imorde performs it with the Bremen Philharmonic under the direction of the French conductor, Marie Jacquot, who was Kirill Petrenko's assistant before being appointed Music Director of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 2024 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Schumann: Fantaisie, Romances, Scènes de la forêt

Claire Désert

Solo Piano - Released September 14, 2018 | Mirare

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Schumann: Scenes from Childhood; Waldszenen – Janáček: On the Overgrown Path, Book 1

Marc-André Hamelin

Classical - Released June 1, 2014 | Hyperion

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French Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin is known for his recordings of ultra-virtuoso music, starting with Liszt and going up from there to the likes of Alkan, Godowsky, and the iconoclast Leo Ornstein. As his career has developed, though, he has sought to avoid being stereotyped, offering some fine recordings of sonatas by Haydn and proceeding to the generally non-virtuosic Schumann. In this one, he programs Schumann's Waldszenen, Op. 82 (Forest Scenes), with Book I of Leos Janácek's On the Overgrown Path, its natural successor. Both works superimpose murky psychological threads on nature imagery, naturally much more explicitly in Janácek's case. This would seem to be anything but Hamelin's home ground, but he succeeds in setting a mood and keeping it going. His performances run almost completely counter to type: they are low-key, not fast, and in places almost impressionistic. With the Kinderszenen, Op. 15, as a sort of encore, the entire program has an impressively sustained intimacy and quiet allusiveness. Of course there is room for performances that do a bit more with the music, but it's clear that Hamelin is anything but a one-note pianist. Hyperion's engineers do much to make London's Henry Wood Hall sound smaller than it actually is.© TiVo
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Schumann: Novelleten & Gesänge der Frühe

Martin Helmchen

Classical - Released April 8, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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Schumann was twenty-eight years old when he composed in 1838 a cycle of eight pieces for piano, the Novelletten, Op. 21. This impressive, highly virtuosic set was dedicated to the pianist Adolf von Henselt, whose spectacular playing and technique were often compared to those of Liszt. Presented by the composer as "long, bizarre tales", the Novelletten were written around the same time as the Kinderszenen, two years before his marriage to Clara, to whom he confided: "I have written a frightful amount of music for you in the last three weeks - light-hearted pieces, Egmont stories, family scenes with fathers, a wedding, in short, the most amiable things". Martin Helmchen has taken up this cycle (with the addition of Robert’s Gesänge der Frühe and three excerpts from Clara's Soirées musicales) with all the passion and virtuosity for which he is famed. He was determined to record this programme on a Bechstein pianoforte, in order to capture as many of the colours of this flamboyant musical kaleidoscope as possible. © Alpha Classics
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R. Schumann: Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 3 - Variationen über den Namen Abegg, Op. 1, Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 32 & Vier Märsche, Op. 76

Dana Ciocarlie

Classical - Released September 29, 2017 | La Dolce Volta

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Schumann: Fantaisie, Fantasiestücke - Argerich

Martha Argerich

Classical - Released January 15, 1976 | Sony Classical

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Hommage à Beethoven

Aris Alexander Blettenberg

Classical - Released May 12, 2023 | CAvi-music

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György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente

Anna Prohaska

Classical - Released August 19, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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Always looking to enrich her repertoire, violinist Isabelle Faust has released an exciting and ambitious album alongside soprano Anna Prohaska, who is also experienced in contemporary repertoire. Very much at ease with smaller ensembles, Hungarian composer György Kurtág (born in 1926) began to sketch out tiny pieces for soprano and violin in 1985 without any specific end goal in mind. These pieces were based on texts by Kafka, taken not from his literary works but his diaries. These writings form an overview of the reflections, wanderings and inner workings of the author’s soul, touching on happiness, despair, biting irony, the certainty of death and the bitterly absurd.Kurtág wrote around forty haiku-like miniature pieces reflecting on existential fragility, leaving the sequence of their selection to the performers, and their publication, to the Hungarian musicologist András Wilhelm. This piece of work is filled with strong, contradictory emotions, which are magnified here by two musicians at the peak of their artistic careers. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Schumann : Einsamkeit - Lieder

Matthias Goerne

Lieder (German) - Released March 31, 2017 | harmonia mundi

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Schumann: Davidsbündler Tänze - Schubert: Sonata D.960

Adam Laloum

Classical - Released September 23, 2016 | Mirare

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Schumann : Dichterliebe

Julian Prégardien

Lieder (German) - Released April 19, 2019 | Alpha Classics

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Julian Prégardien decided to record the Dichterliebe cycle after he came across the new Bärenreiter edition; he went on to explore the work in concerts with his constant accompanist, Eric Le Sage, inserting other works by Robert and also by Clara Schumann, whose bicentenary is celebrated in 2019. When Clara played the Dichterliebe in the 1860s, she used to slip extracts from Kreisleriana between the songs. Prégardien asked Eric Le Sage to record the same extracts on a Blüthner piano of 1856, the year of Robert’s death, and also to include Romances composed by both Robert and Clara at a time when their future marriage was still uncertain. The sublime ballade Löwenbraut also forms part of the programme – a reminder of the young Robert’s anguish on Clara’s departure. At Julien’s suggestion, Sandrine Piau was invited to sing three duets: a simple Canon composed by Clara, and two duets by Robert, Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär, and the sublime In der Nacht. Four further songs complete the recording: Sängers Trost, a short piece in belcanto style; Kurzes Erwachen, composed by Robert at the age of just eighteen; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen, a very melancholy song; an extract from the cycle Myrthen (Robert’s wedding present to Clara); and Mein Wagen rollet langsam, a song that was included in the composer’s first version of Dichterliebe. The Dichterliebe songs micht have been expected to show Schumann triumphantly rejoicing in that year of 1840 when he was finally able to marry Clara; and yet they are characterised by bitter irony, nostalgic Sehnsucht, and a sense of dread… © Alpha Classics
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Robert Schumann: "Kreisleriana" & "Waldszenen"

Robert Schumann

Classical - Released January 1, 2010 | Denon

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100 Years of Radio

Schumann Quartett

Classical - Released September 15, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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