Schumann: At the Piano

Description

Schumann was a poet at the piano, and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as "Träumerei" ("Reverie"), "Von fremden Ländern and Menschen" ("Of foreign lands and people") or "Vogel als Prophet" ("The bird as prophet"). His whole œuvre exudes a sense of poetic freedom, making him the Romantic composer par excellence. Whether in his easiest pieces for children from his Album for the Young or in the more demanding Papillons , we can hear Schumann's own distinctive voice everywhere – a voice whose many registers can be experienced in this selection, which ranges from the easy to the moderately difficult.

Pieces

• Wiegenliedchen, No. 6 from Albumblätter (Album Leaves), Op. 124
• Volksliedchen (No. 9) from Album for the Young (Album for die Jugend), Op. 68
• Von fremden Ländern und Menschen, No. 1 from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
• Curiose Geschichte, No. 2 from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
• Ziemlich langsam, No. 4 from Bunte Blätter, Op. 99
• Nachklänge aus dem Theater (No. 25) from Album for the Young (Album for die Jugend), Op. 68
• Träumerei, No. 7 from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
• Allegro marcato, No. 3 from Intermezzi, Op. 4
• Allegretto semplice, No .4 from Intermezzi, Op. 4
• Romanze, No. 2 from Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival of Vienna), Op. 26
• Einfach, No. 2 from 3 Romances, Op. 28
• Pierrot from Carnaval, Op. 9
• Valse noble from Carnaval, Op. 9
• Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
• Warum from Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
• Vogel als Prophet (No. 7) from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82
• Arabesque in C Major, Op. 18
• Nos. 5, 6 and 12 from Papillons, Op. 2