Schumann: Kinderszenen Op15
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Composer: Robert SchumannPerformer: Vladimir Horowitz
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Von fremden Landern und Menschen
- Curiose Geschichte
- Hasche-Mann
- Bittendes Kind
- Gluckes genug
- Wichtige Bebebenheit
- Traumerei
- Am Camin
- Ritter vom Steckenpferd
- Fast zu ernst
- Furchtenmachen
- Kind im Einschlummern
- Der Dichter spricht
- Ausserst bewegt
- Sehr innig
- Sehr aufgeregt
- Sehr langsam
- Sehr lebhaft
- Sehr langsam
- Sehr rasch
- Schnell und spielend
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Free Music Review: Horowitz Exemplifies Schumann with Simplicity and a Singing Line!
Hit: 5 Stars
For this recital of works by Schumann, Horowitz chose a program that would convey his inner intimacy and lyrical tenderness, except for the Toccata Op. 7. Although the Toccata demands the utmost in technique from the performer, it is far from a mere showpiece, for it has been enriched by Schumann's genius. The work is highly unusual in that it is in sonata form, although Horowitz keeps up the toccata character throughout.
In Kinderszenen Horowitz leaves little to be desired. The clarity of notation, the delicacy of phrasing, the directions regarding dynamics, articulation and agogics are magically crafted. However, Horowitz is not mislead into underestimating the intellectual and technical difficulties, but rather encourages one to preserve the inner lightness and gentle buoyancy of these small pieces.
The last piece, 'The Poet Speaks', is somewhat of an epilogue which sums up the whole work. It is Schumann, the poet, speaking. You know of course they were written for his wife Clara, and before they had children. They may look simple, but each is an incredible masterpiece. Schumann later added the individual titles to give delicate hints on approach and interpretation.
The set of eight fantasy pieces entitled Kreisleriana was one of the composer's favorite works. In a letter to Clara, written before their marriage in 1840, Schumann wrote: "Play my Kreisleriana occasionally. In some passages there is to be found an utterly wild love, and your life and mine, and many of your looks." Horowitz's interpretation of Kreisleriana was less successful. There was a certain kind of unease that extended even to the pianisitics. It was a nervous performance in which the line was often broken, the intimacy and tender beauty were missing and the work tended to sound convulsive. Horowitz himself was not pleased with his Carnegie Hall performance enough to approve its release and decided to rerecord the work. The performance given for this CD is far more superior in clarity of sound and pacing, yet Horowitz never felt totally confident about its many performances, always feeling the playing was somewhat over animated. In the well known Arabesque,Op.18, Horowitz plays with amazing freedom, and the long, seamless phrases are shaped with delicacy as they gently rise and fall with just enough rhythmic vitality to maintain the forward momentum. This was to become a trademark piece often performed in recitals. Composed in the same year, Blumenstuck,Op.19 is one of the final works of this period and considered to be one of Schumann's most beautiful melodies. The work is one of the small treasures of the piano repertory and Horowitz loves it dearly, as his playing of it conveys remarkable lyricism and sonorities filled with the ignoble intention of expressing, describing, painting this or that.
Mr. Horowitz regarded this work as one of the neglected masterpieces of Schumann.
This ever youthful work of Schumann fulfills effectively the requirement once made by the composer:...there should really be something of Spring in every piece of music."
Author:Raymond Vacchino M.Mus.(MT) A.Mus. L.R.S.M. Licentiate (hon.)
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