CD contents:
Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856): Die Album für die Jugend, op. 68 (1/2)
Complete list of tracks
Melodie
Soldatenmarsch
Traellerliedchen (Schlafliedchen fuer Ludwig)
Soldatenmarsch (II version)
Ein Choral
Stueckchen
Armes Waisenkind
Jaegerliedchen
Wilde Reiter
Fuer ganz Kleine
Puppenschlafliedchen
Canone ueber Aus ist der Schmaus, die Gaste gehn nach Haus
Auf der Gondel
Linke Hand, soll sich auch zeigen
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Volksliedchen
Frouhlicher Landmann
Fragment
Ein Laendler von Franz Schubert
Gukkuk im Versteck
Sicilianisch
Knecht Ruprecht
Mai, Lieber Mai
Ein Thema von Gorge Friedrich Haendel
Haschemann
Fest in Tact, im Tome rein, Kanon fuer Singstimmen
Kleine Studie
Ein Stuecken von Bach
Ein Trinklied
Lagune in Venedig
Fruehlingsgesang
Erster Verlust
Baerentanz
Ein schottisches Lied
Eine beruehmte Melodie von Beethoven
Kleiner Walzer
Ein Stueckchen von Mozart
Schnitterliedchen
Not satisfied with playing the whole Opus 68 Marco Tezza also investigated in German archives to find out the pieces Schumann composed for his daughter Marie’s seven birthday, and other pieces, printed in 1924 and 1958, revisited by Clara after her husband’s death.
This integral version is quite original. Says Cesare Galla: "Facing such a huge musical material, the pianist has chosen linear evidences in sound but great flexibility in phrasing. In this way he gets two goals: he underlines the essential poetry, but doesn’t banalize idiom, thus always supporting shapely phrases, not rethorical but full of nuances, impetuous when necessary, but also capable of a really significant tenderness. In this way the wide range of the recital is supported by a focused communicative tension, which hits the center of the style of this kind of music: not banalizing its semplicity, but not going beyond its intimate meaning. In a word Tezza gives an adult interpretation, but able to remind us of childhood on keyboard."
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Music of the romantic period | Format: WAV / 44.1 kHz Digital Audio | 51:53 | 523 Mb | **
This recording's made at Teatro Accademico, Castelfranco Veneto (TV) (2004)