- Audio CD (21 Jun 2011)
- Number of Discs: 13
- Format: Box set
- Label: Nuova Era
- ASIN: B000W99IPM
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 86,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
A nice compact 13CD box set offering most of Schumann's solo piano works, but sadly no recording dates or any other information which would have added a little more value to this collection.
This is a repackage of the set of 13 separately available CDs originally released in 2001, recorded probably in the 1970's, by the highly accomplished Austrian pianist Jorg Demus.
Played with subtlety and great sympathy with the Romantic style this set, despite its shortcomings with respect to information (a 13CD set surely deserves some form of booklet) offers by far the best opportunity to enjoy the solo piano works of Robert Schumann.
This is a repackage of the set of 13 separately available CDs originally released in 2001, recorded probably in the 1970's, by the highly accomplished Austrian pianist Jorg Demus.
Played with subtlety and great sympathy with the Romantic style this set, despite its shortcomings with respect to information (a 13CD set surely deserves some form of booklet) offers by far the best opportunity to enjoy the solo piano works of Robert Schumann.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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This ultra-budget CD boxed set contains pretty much evrything that Robert Schumann wrote for piano all played by the great Jorg Demus. 13 full CDs recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s in good analogue sound.
No notes and only the barest of infomation provided.
You might hold back due to the cheapness of this set in the expectation that it's rubbish - it really is very good and ridiculously good value for money.
Go ahead and buy one!
No notes and only the barest of infomation provided.
You might hold back due to the cheapness of this set in the expectation that it's rubbish - it really is very good and ridiculously good value for money.
Go ahead and buy one!
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Any recording by Jorg Demus is well worth hearing - he is after all one of the finest pianists of the last fifty years and should be better known. Here are his 1970's recordings of (almost) all of Schumann's piano music - much of it relatively little known - in performances of great insight, poetic feeling, and technical dexterity. Demus's interpretations are always historically informed and his Schumann may well well come as a surprise to those used to the vituoso approach other of other pianists like Horowitz who are, of course, playing in the tradition pioneered by Liszt.
Those who are familiar with the recordings of Fanny Davies, Adelina de Lara, and other pupils of his widow Clara will know there is another, less demonstrative, way of playing Schumann and which, it can be argued, is the most authentic. Jorg Demus's cycle is in this tradition and I find his performances in this set totally convincing and very enjoyable.
The piano Demus uses is interesting but, infuriatingly, I can't find out what it was. It certainly wasn't a modern Steinway; could it have been a mid-nineteenth century instrument? It certainly sounds similar to the Broadwood which Chopin used. Although not in perfect condition, it is absolutely ideal for the music.
Unfortunately, the recording quality is only average and, although it doesn't greatly detract from the music, this fact should be mentioned.
A truly delightful set which deserves to be in the collection of all who love piano music of the romantic era.
[I have just been informed by P W Fussey that Demus played a piano made in Vienna by Conrad Graf in 1839]
Those who are familiar with the recordings of Fanny Davies, Adelina de Lara, and other pupils of his widow Clara will know there is another, less demonstrative, way of playing Schumann and which, it can be argued, is the most authentic. Jorg Demus's cycle is in this tradition and I find his performances in this set totally convincing and very enjoyable.
The piano Demus uses is interesting but, infuriatingly, I can't find out what it was. It certainly wasn't a modern Steinway; could it have been a mid-nineteenth century instrument? It certainly sounds similar to the Broadwood which Chopin used. Although not in perfect condition, it is absolutely ideal for the music.
Unfortunately, the recording quality is only average and, although it doesn't greatly detract from the music, this fact should be mentioned.
A truly delightful set which deserves to be in the collection of all who love piano music of the romantic era.
[I have just been informed by P W Fussey that Demus played a piano made in Vienna by Conrad Graf in 1839]
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Talk about a bargain!
This is a great bargain of (nearly) all of Schumann's piano music, and the best complete set I have come across. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Elpenor
Great introduction
This very reasonably priced set a great introduction to Schumann's piano music. Demus is a good pianist and can be relied on to give unexaggerated and musical performances. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr Swallow
Wrong piano
Despite the claim passed on by J. Gibbons in his review of this set that the piano used was one made in 1839 by Conrad Graf in Vienna, that is not true. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Eric Shanes
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