At The Piano - Schumann

Informatie

Schumann was a poet at the piano, and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as “Träumerei” (“Reverie”), “Von fremden Ländern und Menschen” (“Of foreign lands and people”) or “Vogel als Prophet” (“The bird as prophet”). His whole oeuvre exudes a sense of poetic freedom, making him the Romantic composer par excellence. Whether in his easiest pieces for children from his Album for the Young or in the more demanding Papillons, we can hear Schumann’s own distinctive voice everywhere – a voice whose many registers can be experienced in this selection, which ranges from the easy to the moderately difficult.

Inhoudsopgave

1. Album Leaves op. 124 no. 6: Little Lullaby
2. Album for the Young op. 68 no. 9: Little Folksong
3. Scenes from Childhood op. 15 no. 1: A Tale of Distant Lands
4. Scenes from Childhood op. 15 no. 2: Curious Story
5. Ziemlich langsam (Albumblatt no. 1 in f sharp minor) from Coloured Leaves op. 99 no. 4
6. Album for the Young op. 68 no. 25: Echoes of the Theatre
7. Scenes from Childhood op. 15 no. 7: Reverie
8. Intermezzi op. 4 no. 3 and no. 4
9. Carnival of Vienna op. 26 no. 2: Romance in g minor
10. Romance op. 28 no. 2 in F sharp major from Three Romances op. 28
11. Pierrot op. 9 no. 2 from Carnaval op. 9
12. Valse noble op. 9 no. 4 from Carnaval op. 9
13. In the Evening op. 12 no. 1 from Fantasy Pieces op. 12
14. Why? op. 12 no. 3 from Fantasy Pieces op. 12
15. Bird as Prophet op. 82 no. 7 from Forest Scenes op. 82
16. Arabesque in C major op. 18
17. Papillons op. 2 no. 5, no. 6 and no. 12