Release Date: 01 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030506800
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SCHUMANN, R.
Description
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 Bunte Blatter Op. 99Much of the piano music of Schumann was written before hismarriage in 1840, to Clara Wieck, a match that her father, once Schumann's piano teacher,had done all he could to prevent. Schumann himself combined literary interests withmusical, eventually persuading his widowed mother and his guardian to allow him to leaveuniversity and devote his attention to the latter. A weakness in his fingers, frustratedhis ambition to become a virtuoso pianist and after 1840, a year in which he wrote a vastnumber of songs, he was encouraged by his young wife to tackle larger orchestral forms.Although widely respected both as a composer and as a writer on musical subjects, he hadno official position until his appointment as director of music in D??sseldorf in 1850,his unhappy tenure there interrupted by a break-down and final insanity, leading to hisdeath in 1856.Schumann's Fantasie in Cmajor, Opus 17, belongs to the earlier period of the composer's life. Itoriginally bore the title Obolen auf BeethovensMonument: Ruinen, Trophaen, Palmen, Grosse Sonate f.d. Piano f. F??r Beethovens Denkmal.The matter of the Beethoven monument in Bonn was one that interested a number ofmusicians. A statue was finally erected in 1845, largely as the result of the generosityof Franz Liszt, who took the opportunity of providing the major part of the money needed,while reserving to himself the choice of artist for the monument. Schumann, who in the enddedicated his Fantasie to Liszt, suggested, that a hundred copies of the Grand Sonata, asit was first envisaged, should be sold for the benefit of the fund. This does not seem tohave happened, and in any case, before its publication in 1839, the work underwent somerevision. Liszt replied enthusiastically to the dedication of a work that he described asof the highest rank, while offering his assistance to Schumann in his proposedrelationship with Clara, in answer to Schumann's implied revelation of the state of hisaffections.Whatever changes may have been made, the Fantasie remainssomething of a sonata. It is in three movements and is prefaced by four lines fromFriedrich Schlegel, a relation by marriage of the Mendelssohns: Durch alle Tone tonet in bunten Erdentraum ein leiserTon gezogen f??r den, der heimlich lauschet.(Through all the sounds in the varied earthly dream, a gentlesound there is, for those who listen in their hearts). Schumann explained this to Clara ina deeply personal way: she was this sound and only she can understand this music, if sheturns her mind back to 1836, when Schumann had deserted her.The first movement contains fragments of Beethoven's song-cycleAn die ferne Geliebte (To the DistantBeloved), but is dominated by a supremely lyrical melody. The first part of this movementis to be played in a fantastic and passionate manner throughout, while a second melody isto be played "im Legenden- Ton", as recounting a legend. This second sectionserv
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
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David Darling
Various
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Tagliaferri/Sciddurlo
Swr So Baden Freiburg
Seung-Yeun Huh
Oxford Girls Choir/Skinner
Monks Of Solesmes
