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Schumann: Kinderszenen Op15 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Robert Schumann, Vladimir Horowitz
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 106935
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 42409
UPC: 074644240924
EAN: 0074644240924
ASIN: B0000026GD
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Von fremden Landern und Menschen | | • | Curiose Geschichte | | • | Hasche-Mann | | • | Bittendes Kind | | • | Gluckes genug | | • | Wichtige Bebebenheit | | • | Traumerei | | • | Am Camin | | • | Ritter vom Steckenpferd | | • | Fast zu ernst | | • | Furchtenmachen | | • | Kind im Einschlummern | | • | Der Dichter spricht | | • | Ausserst bewegt | | • | Sehr innig | | • | Sehr aufgeregt | | • | Sehr langsam | | • | Sehr lebhaft | | • | Sehr langsam | | • | Sehr rasch | | • | Schnell und spielend |
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Horowitz Exemplifies Schumann with Simplicity and a Singing Line! October 8, 2007
Raymond Vacchino (Toronto, ON. Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
For this recital of works by Schumann, Horowitz chose a program that would convey his inner intimacy and lyrical tenderness, except for the Toccata Op. 7. Although the Toccata demands the utmost in technique from the performer, it is far from a mere showpiece, for it has been enriched by Schumann's genius. The work is highly unusual in that it is in sonata form, although Horowitz keeps up the toccata character throughout.
In Kinderszenen Horowitz leaves little to be desired. The clarity of notation, the delicacy of phrasing, the directions regarding dynamics, articulation and agogics are magically crafted. However, Horowitz is not mislead into underestimating the intellectual and technical difficulties, but rather encourages one to preserve the inner lightness and gentle buoyancy of these small pieces.
The last piece, 'The Poet Speaks', is somewhat of an epilogue which sums up the whole work. It is Schumann, the poet, speaking. You know of course they were written for his wife Clara, and before they had children. They may look simple, but each is an incredible masterpiece. Schumann later added the individual titles to give delicate hints on approach and interpretation.
The set of eight fantasy pieces entitled Kreisleriana was one of the composer's favorite works. In a letter to Clara, written before their marriage in 1840, Schumann wrote: "Play my Kreisleriana occasionally. In some passages there is to be found an utterly wild love, and your life and mine, and many of your looks." Horowitz's interpretation of Kreisleriana was less successful. There was a certain kind of unease that extended even to the pianisitics. It was a nervous performance in which the line was often broken, the intimacy and tender beauty were missing and the work tended to sound convulsive. Horowitz himself was not pleased with his Carnegie Hall performance enough to approve its release and decided to rerecord the work. The performance given for this CD is far more superior in clarity of sound and pacing, yet Horowitz never felt totally confident about its many performances, always feeling the playing was somewhat over animated. In the well known Arabesque,Op.18, Horowitz plays with amazing freedom, and the long, seamless phrases are shaped with delicacy as they gently rise and fall with just enough rhythmic vitality to maintain the forward momentum. This was to become a trademark piece often performed in recitals. Composed in the same year, Blumenstuck,Op.19 is one of the final works of this period and considered to be one of Schumann's most beautiful melodies. The work is one of the small treasures of the piano repertory and Horowitz loves it dearly, as his playing of it conveys remarkable lyricism and sonorities filled with the ignoble intention of expressing, describing, painting this or that.
Mr. Horowitz regarded this work as one of the neglected masterpieces of Schumann.
This ever youthful work of Schumann fulfills effectively the requirement once made by the composer:...there should really be something of Spring in every piece of music."
Author:Raymond Vacchino M.Mus.(MT) A.Mus. L.R.S.M. Licentiate (hon.)
The Definitive Kreislerianna November 1, 2005
Edwin J. Firmage (SLC, UT USA)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Everything on this disc is what you'd expect from one of the greatest pianists of all time: superb. But the treasure is the Kreislerianna, of which this is the definitive recording. I've searched in vain for a more recent, sonically better version. There is, for example, a decent recording of the piece by Perahia, a mediocre one by Brendel, and an awful one by Argerich (arghhh!), but nothing matches this. Radu Lupu's comes the closest, but it lacks the definition and vision of Horowitz's, especially in the opening section. People sometimes berate Horowitz as too much a technician, much as they did Gould. But how they can say that in the face of a deeply felt interpretation such as this is beyond me. I first heard this recording when I was about 16 (luckily, since this isn't your average bedtime classical sampler, and it needs the right interpreter) and have loved it ever since. The Kreislerianna, incidentally, is also among Schumann's most lovely works, melodic, and complex.
 Horowitz was good...only. November 26, 2004
Enrique D. Ramos
5 out of 16 found this review helpful
Horowitz in my opinion epitomized the typical virtuoso pianist expected by the unknowledged majority. Horowitz was great with some of the most difficult pieces of music. His technique was grand, but his musicality lacked purity and warmth. A great man once said that it is ok to drop your voice at the end of a sentece, but too loose it completely was simply pushing the boundries. Horowitz is not my choice for playing the Kinderzenen, but the rest of the program was his to conquer.
perfection August 8, 1999
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
an essential Schumann CD. Kreisleriana especially is mind-blowing
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