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Schumann: Piano Music

~ Robert Schumann (Composer, Performer), Marc-André Hamelin (Piano), Marc-Andre Hamelin (Artist)
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Product details

  • Performer: Robert Schumann
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Audio CD (24 Jan 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B000058UUV
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 194,968 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fantasie in C major Op.17
2. Piano Sonata No.2 in G minor Op.22
3. Etudes symphoniques

On this CD:
  1. Etudes symphoniques, 'Symphonic Studies'
    Composed by Robert Schumann
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  2. Fantasie in C
    Composed by Robert Schumann
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  3. Sonata for Piano No. 2 in G minor
    Composed by Robert Schumann
    with Marc-André Hamelin


Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Marc-André Hamelin already has some notable Hyperion discs under his belt and now adds three works by Schumann to his catalogue. The op.17 Fantasie shows Schumann the master of large-scale composition--at almost 33 minutes it is the longest piece on the disc. This is good, rich, meaty stuff, and Hamelin really gives it some welly, but he is equally at home in the quieter, more lyrical passages which are never far away in Schumann. Try the opening of the Langsam getragen. This is archetypal Schumann: intimate, assured and with more than a hint of vulnerability. There's more of this in the slow movement of the Piano Sonata op.22. After the headlong scurrying of the first movement, the Andantino lets us into the quiet place again, the old head-and-heart mix which is Schumann's trademark. The Etudes symphoniques op.13 is one of those grand sweeping pieces that just carries you along. Having set out its stall in leisurely fashion, it cascades through an endlessly inventive set of variations to the Allegro brillante finale, which Hamelin tackles with take-no-prisoners verve. The playing throughout is rich and opulent, tempering Schumann's essentially personal outpouring with the bravura public face. --Keith Clarke

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4.0 out of 5 stars Austere Schumann with Titanic Virtuosity!, 9 Mar 2007
By Scriabinmahler (Cambridge UK) - See all my reviews
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If you admire Hamelin's super-human virtuosity, you will not be disappointed with this recording. In each piece there's a plenty of it, and this is no doubt the most technically accomplished of all Schumann recitals for recent years.

My only reservation is that it sounds too austere and somehow it lacks colours, atmosphere and delicacy (so essential to Schumann's piano music) in all three pieces. Having said that who else can play Schumann, nowadays, with rich poetry and subtlety that match past masters like Heinrich Neuhaus or Richter who could work miracle on keybord playing Schumann?

Schumann's music really shows limitation of imagination and poor use of pedalling so characteristic of our generation of pianists who do not pay much attention to how sound decays and mixes with other notes and harmonies. To many pianists today, 'subltely' means only playing softly because their focus is only on starting point of a note they create, so their pianism lacks in depth and richness of expression no matter how hard they try to create poetry and atmosphere ( Kissin or Ashkenazy is a typical examle ).

Hamelin is no exception in this respect, but he still manages pretty well compared to other pianists. If you admire his fingures, 5 stars surely, but out of respect for Schumann's music, I give only 4.
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