Benjamin Grosvenor: Schumann & Brahms [sound recording]
2023
Music CDs
The acclaimed British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 30 and yet a well-established favourite of critics and audiences around the globe, takes Robert Schumann's haunting Kreisleriana as his starting point in his album, 'Schumann & Brahms'. This eight-movement work portrays the mercurial personality of the fictional Johannes Kreisler, created by E. T. A. Hoffmann: Kreisler's highs and lows, and his dreamy nature, clearly mirror Schumann's own tragic manic-depressive tendencies. Grosvenor responds to the composer's autobiographical honesty with playing of sublime tenderness, dazzling variety, and imaginative empathy. He accompanies the work with the melancholic Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann by Schumann's beloved wife Clara (who, incidentally, stated that she was much disturbed by the visions conjured up in Kreisleriana). Further kaleidoscopic variety is provided by Robert's Blumenstück, and Quasi Variazione: Andantino de Clara Wieck. The recital also includes Brahms' Three Intermezzi, autumnal works which shed a fascinating light on the complicated relationship which existed between Robert, Clara and Brahms himself. Grosvenor's own arrangement of Robert's Abendlied completes the programme.
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Benjamin Grosvenor: Schumann & Brahms [sound recording] / composers, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann.
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Decca Classics, 2023.
Collation:
1 CD ; 4 3/4 in.
Performers:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano.
Contents:
Kreisleriana, op. 16. I. Äu_erst bewegt / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. III. Sehr aufgeregt / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. IV. Sehr langsam / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. V. Sehr lebhaft / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. VI. Sehr langsam / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. VII. Sehr rasch / Robert SchumannKreisleriana, op. 16. VIII. Schnell und spielend / Robert Schumann3 Romanzen, op. 28. No. 2 in F-sharp major (einfach) / Robert SchumannBlumenstück, op. 19 / Robert SchumannPiano sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14. Theme / Robert SchumannPiano sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14. Variation I / Robert SchumannPiano sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14. Variation II / Robert SchumannPiano sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14. Variation III / Robert SchumannPiano sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14. Variation IV / Robert SchumannAbendlied, op. 85, no. 12 / Robert SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Theme / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation I / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation II / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation III / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation IV / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation V / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation VI / Clara SchumannVariations sur un thème de Robert Schumann, op. 20. Variation VII / Clara SchumannIntermezzi, op. 117. No. 1 in E-flat major / Johannes BrahmsIntermezzi, op. 117. No. 2 in B-flat minor / Johannes BrahmsIntermezzi, op. 117. No. 3 in C-sharp minor / Johannes Brahms.
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2342544
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