Neuwirth / Schumann / Stravinsky / Park - Schumann, Stravinsky & Neuwirth: Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Schumann / Cai - Piano Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/15/2019

Album Tracks 1. Allegro 2. Romanze 3. Scherzino 4. Intermezzo 5. Finale 6. Von Fremden Ländern Und Menschen 7. Kuriose Geschichte 8. Hasche-Mann 9. Bittendes Kind 10. Glückes Genug 11. Wichtige Begebenheit 12. Träumerei 13. Am Kamin 14. Ritter Vom Steckenpferd 15. Fast Zu Ernst 16. Fürchtenmachen 17. Kind Im Einschlummern 18. Der Dichter Spricht 19. Thema 20. Etude I 21. Variation III 22. Etude II 23. Etude III 24. Etude IV 25. Etude V 26. Variation IV 27. Etude VI 28. Etude VII 29. Variation II 30. Variation V 31. Etude VIII 32. Etude IX 33. Variation I 34. Etude X 35. Etude XI 36. Etude XII - Finale

Margarita Höhenrieder writes of her new InchAfter just a few notes on this exceptionally fine Pleyel grand piano in Kellinghusen, north of Hamburg, in a collection of Eric Feller's, I found myself plunged into a different century. This pianoforte was built in Paris in about 1855 and professionally restored using historical materials and methods. It is absolutely uniform with the instrument that Chopin possessed, and is of typically French elegance - in sound as well as in appearance. It reflects the soul of the Romantic era. Apart from that, it offers an authentic testimony to the sound of the instruments that Fryderyk Chopin and Robert and Clara Schumann played. Clara's father, Friedrich Wieck, gave his daughter a Streicher grand, built in Vienna. Personally, I saw this Pleyel as the ideal instrument on which to play the works of Robert and Clara Schumann as authentically as possible while also matching as precisely as possible the exacting demands they place on piano technique. The constant aspiration in today's music world towards ever larger and more versatile instruments and architecturally and acoustically challenging auditoria meant that I was in search of a convincingly authentic sound for compositions written in and around the 1830s, while also looking out for a suitable performance location - comparable to a mid-19th-century salon and differing from today's concert halls.Inch