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Schumann - Scenes from Childhood
Scenes from Childhood: Piano Music of Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood. Piano Music of Robert
Schumann
Stephanie McCallum
This disc was released to commemorate the
bicentenary of the birth the great and troubled genius, Robert
Schumann (1810 - 1856) and contains masterpieces from the 1830s
when Schumann occupied himself entirely with innovative music for
the keyboard. The major works are Scenes from Childhood, Op.
15, an imaginative series of pictures about childhood, written
while Schumann yearned for a domestic life with Clara Wiek, the
Fantasie, Op. 17, Schumann's tribute to Beethoven and
reinterpretation of classical form, and Papillons, Op. 2, an
innovative exploration of whimsy and Romantic fragmentary form,
inspired by Jean Paul's incomplete novel Flegeljahre. In
this recording, which has been praised for its freshness and
clarity, Stephanie McCallum returns to Schumann's original tempo
indications, which are often lighter and quicker than the
performance tradition which grew from the edition by Clara
Wiek.
"The great virtue McCallum brings is an absence of
the usual foibles: sentimentality and over-interpretation. They are
performances of no-frills honesty and a fresh view of the music."
Graham Strahle, The Australian. August 7, 2010. More
Kinderscenen (Scenes from Childhood),
Op. 15
1.
Von fremden Landern und Menschen (Of
Foreign Lands and People)
2.
Kuriose Geschichte (Curious Tale)
3.
Hasche-Mann
(Chasings)
4.
Bittendes Kind (Imploring
Child)
5.
Gluckes genug (Happy Enough)
6.
Wichtige Begebenheit (Important
Occasion)
7.
Traumerei (Dreaming)
8.
Am Kamin (By the
Fireside)
9.
Ritter vom Steckenpferd
(Knight of the Hobby Horse)
10.
Fast zu ernst (Almost too
serious)
11.
Furchtenmachen
(Frightening)
12.
Kind im
Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep)
13.
Der Dichter
Spricht (The Poet Speaks)
Fantasie, Op.
17
14.
I. Durchaus
phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Em Legendenton -
Erstes Tempo
