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Schumann: Fantasy for Piano, Waldszenen, Fantasiestücke, Marsch
Sviatoslav Richter
Classical - Released January 18, 2008 | Supraphon a.s.
The music of Robert Schumann and the artistry of Sviatoslav Richter are a natural match. Schumann was loathe to use flashy, purely virtuosic elements in his compositions, a fact brilliantly illustrated in the vast majority of his works for solo piano. Rather, Schumann was much more likely to tell a story, paint a picture, or read a poem through his music, although his works were not overtly programmatic. Richter possessed a technique virtually unrivaled during his career and was able to definitively toss off even the most technically demanding works. At his heart, however, Richter was a poet and an artist with profound musical insights and introspections. This album, featuring recordings made in the late '50s, is one of Richter's surviving albums in which poor sound quality does not distract listeners from this artistry. His performances of the C major Fantasy, the Op. 82 Waldszenen, and the Op. 12 Fantasiestucke are magnificently refined, unhurried, and unsullied by some pianists' need to make the works flashier then they need to be. Schumann's works allow listeners to hear the warmer, more tender side of Richter in a way that not even his commanding performances of the Beethoven sonatas allow. Surprisingly spacious for a monaural recording, the restored sound quality throughout generally achieves a pleasing balance of warmth and clarity.
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R. Schumann: Albumblätter, Op. 124 & 4 Marches, Op. 76
Gudula Kremers
Classical - Released March 1, 2015 | SWRmusic
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Schumann: Fantasia in C Major, Papillons, Waldszenen, Second March from "Four Marches"
Sviatoslav Richter
Classical - Released February 7, 2008 | MUSIC ONLINE
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SCHUMANN, R.: 4 Marches / Waldscenen / 4 Fugen / Studies for Pedal Piano / SCHUMANN, C.: 3 Preludes and Fugues (Piano Works From Dresden) (Koch)
Tobias Koch
Classical - Released February 1, 2010 | Genuin
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Schumann: Fairy Tale Narrations / Fairy Tales / 4 Marches / Fantasiestucke
Harold Wright
Chamber Music - Released April 1, 2011 | Music and Arts Programs of America
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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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Carnaval. A recital around Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9
Matan Porat
Classical - Released September 25, 2020 | Mirare
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Robert Schumann: Vier Fugen op. 72, Vier Märsche op. 76, Waldszenen op. 82 – CD1
Paul Rickard-Ford
Miscellaneous - Released April 5, 2019 | International Piano Competition Johann Sebastian Bach
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Schumann: Piano Quartet - Piano Quintet
Isabelle Faust
Chamber Music - Released November 24, 2023 | harmonia mundi
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Violinist Isabelle Faust and fortepianist Alexander Melnikov have been accumulating a catalog of distinctive historical performances of Schumann. Here, they turn to the composer's most famous chamber works, the Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47, and Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, bringing on board violist Antoine Tamestit, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and violinist Anne Katharina Schreiber in the Piano Quintet. Despite the common key and the fact that the two works were written just a few weeks apart, they're quite different, and one strength of these performances is that the players catch the difference. The Piano Quartet is quiet and inward, with Faust's "Sleeping Beauty" Stradivarius purring in the opening Sostenuto assai passage. The slow movement of this work gets a performance of rare lyricism here. The Piano Quintet looks forward to a more public, orchestral kind of chamber music, and the players succeed in transforming the entire sound environment of the music, aided immeasurably by Harmonia's engineers. The music was recorded at the small hall of the German federal youth music academy in Trossingen, and this is a superb space for the music. Of interest far beyond historical performance circles, these are wonderful performances of Schumann's major chamber works.© 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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Robert Schumann was never more purely Romantic than in his set of piano pieces Kreisleriana, Op. 16. The set is of extramusical, literary inspiration, taking its name from a character in stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and it features the explosive imagination of the young Schumann at its best. Schumann announced the work, which he apparently wrote in four days, rather breathlessly to his inamorata, Clara, and more than almost any other work of his, it seems to spill over the boundaries of the short piano piece. Hélène Grimaud has recorded the work before, but she seems to have added intensity this time around. She is nervously excited in the faster virtuosic numbers, but sample No. 4 to hear her marvelous control over the tonal instability that appears in many of these pieces. The Brahms Intermezzi, Op. 117, were also "For Clara," sent to Clara Schumann toward the end of his life; the two had remained friends, and here, in Grimaud's evocation of tempestuous old-school pianism, one is stirred to wonder what Clara sounded like playing this music. The connection of the nine Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32, of Brahms to Clara is less clear, and the set, with baritone Konstantin Krimmel on the vocals, may seem like an afterthought; the three performances on the album were all made at different places and times. However, taken on its own terms, it is a fine performance of this set, consisting entirely of settings of texts by Eastern poets. Krimmel catches the rather mystical nature of the songs, and Grimaud, with whom he has worked in the past, is effective as an accompanist. This is an important entry in Grimaud's catalog, with a Kreisleriana that is as fine as any.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schumann & Brahms
Benjamin Grosvenor
Classical - Released March 17, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
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After two glorious albums devoted to Chopin and Liszt, Benjamin Grosvenor continues his exploration of the Romantic period by tackling the third leading faction of the genre, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms (who was a close friend of both the Schumann’s). The Kreisleriana, like many of Schumann’s other cycles, are a virtuosic reflection on his artistic 'doubles'; Eusebius, the melancholic dreamer, and Florestan, the feverish and passionate rake. The Three Romances Op.28 expresses Schumann's eternal and unconditional love for Clara, who saw in these pieces "the most beautiful love dialogues". In the last movement of the Sonata No. 3 Op.14, Schumann makes an elegant reference to his own Kreisleriana. Clara Wieck's Variations on a Theme of Schumann later inspired Brahms to write his own variations on the same theme. There are similarities in character to his Intermezzi at the end of the album. With his singular and unmistakable touch, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers an interpretation of unadulterated purity, with a simple and luminous audio recording that gives these great passages their deserved nobility. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet
Trio Wanderer
Chamber Music - Released April 30, 2021 | harmonia mundi
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Constantly shifting from the most impulsive exuberance to the most restrained meditation, from the most intense passion to the most innocent tenderness, this programme forms a representative panorama of Schumann’s chamber music. Going beyond the Piano Trios, which already give us a fully rounded account of Schumann, the Trio Wanderer have invited their favourite partners to join them for their interpretation of two supreme masterpieces, the Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet. © harmonia mundi
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Beethoven, Schumann, Franck
Renaud Capuçon
Classical - Released November 18, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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French violinist Renaud Capuçon launched a new long-term partnership with the famous German label Deutsche Grammophon in 2022, which is intended to ‘present classical music in an innovative way’. For this first release on DGG, the violinist reunites once more with pianist Martha Argerich. This isn’t new repertoire for the pianist, who continues to explore the pieces she knows by heart (her expertise in this repertoire has long been illustrated, alongside musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Itzhak Perlman, etc.). There’s nothing new here for Renaud Capuçon either—he’s already tackled the Schumann sonata with Argerich (Warner Classics, Lugano, 2011), officially recorded the Franck sonata with Khatia Buniatishvili (Erato) and the "Kreutzer" sonata with Frank Braley. However, these performances, recorded at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence in April 2022, will be warmly received. How can anyone refuse the opportunity to listen to two artists who bounce off each other so well, both musically and as friends? © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
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Schumann : Symphonien 1 - 4
Sir Simon Rattle
Classical - Released May 23, 2014 | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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And so, after much expectation, the entire set of Schumann’s Symphonies by Simon Rattle has finally been released with Berliner Philharmoniker’s brand new own label. The 2013 live recordings are extraordinarily thorough: Rattle has truly outdone himself. His direction is incredibly clear, and he benefits from a smaller orchestra with a reduced amount of strings. This is a more ‘reasonable’ set up, as it restores balance between the different instruments. This is especially the case in the sections containing a lot of wood instruments, as all too often conductors let the strings drown out all other sounds without worrying about the ‘chamber music’ essence of the symphonies. It is also noteworthy that the fourth symphony is offered in its original 1841 version, which chronologically makes it his second production. The rearranged version of 1851 is thicker, and contains considerable differences in the music itself. This was not Brahms’ preferred version, and so he published the 1841 original version in 1891, just after Clara Schumann had placed the 1851 rearrangement on the market.
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Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Classical - Released January 12, 2024 | Warner Classics
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Schumann: The Symphonies
Daniel Barenboim
Classical - Released November 4, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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Daniel Barenboim's 80th birthday in 2022 was attended by various reissues of his work, great and small, but listeners have shown a commendable ability to see through the marketing by putting this new set of Schumann symphonies, recorded live in 2021, on classical best-seller lists. This is the third time Barenboim has recorded the Schumann symphonies, and while this reading with his well-honed Staatskapelle Berlin is not cut from fundamentally different cloth than the earlier ones, it is delicate to a perhaps unprecedented degree. Barenboim, maybe more than any other conductor, realizes that lightness is the key to these works, as much as in Schumann's songs, and that the crucial small details emerge if they are given room to do so. Each symphony is thought out as an independent unit. Consider the Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38, where Barenboim offers an end-heavy reading and makes a powerful case for it. The lightness of the first two movements is marvelous. In the Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 ("Rhenish"), Barenboim makes clear the immense influence this work had on the second half of the 19th century with its fusion of sonata form and programmatic imagery; his reading flows (so to speak) just beautifully. Deutsche Grammophon's live sound is another draw in a Schumann set for the ages. Bravo, Maestro!© James Manheim /TiVo
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Diaries: Schumann
Tiffany Poon
Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | PentaTone
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Physical buyers of the album will get reflections from Tiffany Poon about "feeling all the feels" and other similarly general concepts (the diaries, apparently, are hers rather than Schumann's), but this young pianist turns out to have a real feel for Schumann, and this release, her first on the PentaTone label, promises much. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of available recordings of the three Schumann works here, but Poon succeeds in standing out from the crowd. The most remarkable performance of all is one of the most popular works, Kinderszenen, Op. 15, and within that, one can sample the single most beloved Scene of Childhood, Träumerei, Op. 15/7. Poon, in a world full of heavily rubato-laden interpretations of these pieces, takes Robert Schumann's advice to Clara to heart and plays them not far from fixed tempos, but there is nothing dispassionate about her performance, which makes a great deal out of very small gestures. Later in the program, which builds in intensity as it proceeds, Poon unleashes some drama in the Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, works that are close to Schumann's heart and expressive of his fantasy life. Even here, everything is under perfect control. It has been a very long time since such freshly conceived and brilliantly executed Schumann has graced CD players and hard drives, and audiences responded by placing this album on classical best-seller lists in early 2024.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana
Classical - Released February 3, 2023 | Warner Classics
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Once traditionally paired with Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto is now more frequently brought up alongside the Concerto in A minor that his beloved wife Clara Wieck wrote when she was still a teenager. This welcome sign of the times, however, does invite some difficulties in comparison, notably in qualifying the work of a master in full maturity and that of a genial 14-year-old at the beginning of her composing career. The young Clara Wieck, who would go on to become Mrs Schumann, is astonishing in this work, with its firmly drawn melodic patterns and winged virtuosity. How could we fail to recognise the solo appearance of the cello in the Romance (second movement) as foreshadowing of its near identical recasting by Schumann in his own Concerto in A minor, which seems chosen almost as a response to the young woman, and for its employment by their dear friend Brahms in his Concerto No. 2 in B flat?Beatrice Rana and Philippe Nézet-Seguin highlight this connection perfectly by giving the two works similar size and import. Since then, Clara Wieck’s work has entered the official repertoire and ceased to be a mere curiosity. In the absence of a complementary Brahms piece, Beatrice Rana chose a transcription that Franz Liszt, another of the couple’s great friends, had made of the Widmung lied, which Robert had written for Clara as a token of his love. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Schumann : The Four Symphonies
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Classical - Released August 1, 1993 | Warner Classics
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In 1973 the recording of an opera by Wagner, which Wolfgang Sawallisch was to perform in Dresden for Electrola/EMI, was canceled. By mutual agreement, the technical team and the musicians all the same decide to honor the contract and ... to engrave the Symphonies of Schumann. This initially negative circumstance will give rise to a recording of breathtaking beauty. Intensity of phrasing, rhythmic flexibility, warmth of the orchestra, everything is masterful here! (Qobuz)« Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Staatskapelle Dresden make fitting and eloquent interpreters of Schumann's four symphonies, each a highly distinctive work. The city of Dresden was the composer's home for six years, while Sawallisch was a keen advocate of his large-scale works. For all the energy and passion that Sawallisch communicates in these performances, he does not impose himself on the music; he is content to illuminate and reinforce Schumann's inspired, if sometimes idiosyncratic arguments.» (Warner)« Outstandingly good. I count theses performances of the Schumann Symphonies as among the best things Sawallisch has ever done. The playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden is superlative in every department. Not to be missed.» (Gramophone)
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Ravel, Schumann: String Quartets
Leonkoro Quartet
Chamber Music - Released September 1, 2023 | Mirare
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