New Album Releases: ROBERT SCHUMANN - PIANO WORKS (Gerhard Oppitz)

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Artist:
Gerhard Oppitz

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
02:22:16

Record Label:
Hanssler Classic

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
January 6, 2023




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Product Description: Within the realm of Romantic piano music, where new discoveries are constantly just around the corner, the contribution of Robert Schumann has always played a major part. True, he cannot rival the aura of Chopin's works, of which Ignaz Friedman asserted that not only had Chopin opened the piano with them, he had closed it again. (Schumann paid his own tribute in his reverent review of Chopin's op. 2 of 1831, the Variations on Mozart's "Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben"). Nor did Schumann embed in the history of piano playing such milestones of technical mastery and manual dexterity as Liszt who - inspired by Paganini's concerts and enabled by the double-escapement action developed by Sébastien Erard in 1821 - had practically reinvented the instrument by the time he wrote his Etudes d'exécution transcendante in 1837. And neither the sprightliness of Felix Mendelssohn's keyboard idiom nor Charles-Valentin Alkan's exaltation of virtuosity are characteristic of Schumann's piano music, even if he proves in his Abegg Variations op. 1 (1830) and his Toccata op. 7 (1832) that he brilliantly commanded both approaches to the instrument.

TRACK LIST:

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Disc 1

1 . Heft I: 1. Lebhaft Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:50)

2 . Heft I: 2. Innig Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:53)

3 . Heft I: 3. Mit Humor Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:35)

4 . Heft I: 4. Ungeduldig Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:00)

5 . Heft I: 5. Einfach Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:29)

6 . Heft I: 6. Sehr rasch Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:56)

7 . Heft I: 7. Nicht schnell Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (03:38)

8 . Heft I: 8. Frisch Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:06)

9 . Heft I: 9. Lebhaft Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:48)

10 . Heft II: 1. Balladenmäßig Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:45)

11 . Heft II: 2. Einfach Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:16)

12 . Heft II: 3. Mit Humor Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (00:48)

13 . Heft II: 4. Wild und lustig Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (03:27)

14 . Heft II: 5. Zart und singend Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (03:09)

15 . Heft II: 6. Frisch Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:06)

16 . Heft II: 7. Mit gutem Humor Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (01:52)

17 . Heft II: 8. Wie aus der Ferne Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (04:35)

18 . Heft II: 9. Nicht schnell Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:49)

19 . Humoreske, Op. 20 . Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (31:37)


Disc 2

1 . I. Allegro Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (08:12)

2 . II. Scherzo. Molto comodo Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (06:36)

3 . III. Quasi Variazioni Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (07:33)

4 . IV. Prestissimo possible Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (08:12)

5 . Arabeske Op. 18 . Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (07:02)

6 . Blumenstück Op. 19 . Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (08:23)

7 . I. Sehr lebhaft Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (10:42)

8 . II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:32)

9 . III. Scherzino Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:27)

10 . IV. Intermezzo. Mit größter Energie Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (02:28)

11 . V. Finale. Höchst lebhaft Robert Schumann Gerhard Oppitz (06:30)

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