Schumann / Frith: Davidsbundlertanze / Fantasiestucke
Schumann / Frith: Davidsbundlertanze / Fantasiestucke
Format: CD
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Artist: Schumann / Frith
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 730099549325
Genre: Classical
The Davidsbündlertänze, Opus 6, and the Fantasiestücke, Opus 12, both belong to the year 1837. Wieck had insisted that Clara should not see Schumann and that letters should be returned. The latter, despairing of success in his pursuit of Clara, turned to drink and conduct that his landlady, at least, found reprehensible. At one point he sought revenge on Clara by publishing a satire mocking both her and a young man who had been brought in by her father to give her singing lessons. He dedicated his Fantasiestücke, written between 22nd May and 4th July, to an attractive eighteen-year-old Scottish pianist, Robena Laidlaw. It was Clara who brought about a reconciliation through an intermediary so that August saw her pledged to him and in September they were able to meet again. The Davidsbündlertänze were written in the late summer and early autumn of 1837, after this reconciliation. The first dance opens with a quotation from a Mazurka by Clara Wieck and is varied in mood, attributed to both Florestan and Eusebius. The second piece is attributed to the latter and the third, marked With Humour, to Florestan, the author of the fourth, marked Impatient. The simple fifth piece is in the mood of Eusebius, while the sixth, in stormier mood, reverts to Florestan. The opening arpeggiated chords of the seventh piece reintroduce Eusebius, followed by a brusque Florestan. The last piece of the first book, marked Lively, carries an additional explanation: Hierauf schloß Florestan und es zuckte ihm schmerzlich um die Lippen (Hereupon Florestan stopped and his lips quivered sadly). Florestan opens the second set of nine pieces in ballad measure, with a whimsical third piece framing a simple second for Eusebius. The fourth has room for both moods, with the gently singing filth for Eusebius. Both are together again in the sixth piece as they appear to be in the seventh, with it's contrasting slower Trio section, which leads at once to the eighth piece, Wie aus der Ferne (As from the Distance). For the final dance Schumann adds the explanation: Ganz zum Überfluss meinte Eusebius noch Folgendes; dabei sprach aberviel Seligkeit aus seinen Augen (Eusebius considered the following quite superfluous; but at the same time he expressed much happiness with his eyes). The last piece adds a gentle C major conclusion to the work. Benjamin Frith the young British pianist Benjamin Frith has had a distinguished career. A pupil of Fanny Waterman, he won, at the age of fourteen, the British National Concerto Competition, followed by the award of the Mozart Memorial Prize and joint top prize in 1986 in the Italian Busoni International Piano Competition and in 1989 a Gold Medal and First prize in the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition. Benjamin Frith enjoys a busy international career, with engagements in the United States and throughout Europe as a soloist and recitalist, with festival appearances at Sheffield, Aldeburgh, Harrogate, Kuhmo, Bolzano, Savannah, Pasadena and Hong Kong and an Edinburgh Festival debut in 1992. His recordings include a highly praised performance of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations on the ASV label and for Naxos a release of piano music by Schumann, followed by the two Mendelssohn Piano Concertos and the Third Piano Concerto of Rachmaninov.
Tracks:
1.1 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Lebhaft
1.2 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Innig
1.3 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Mit Humor
1.4 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Ungeduldig
1.5 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Einfach
1.6 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Sehr Rash
1.7 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Nicht Schnell
1.8 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Frisch
1.9 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Lebhaft
1.10 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Balladenmassig - Sehr Rasch
1.11 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Einfach
1.12 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Mit Humor
1.13 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Wild Und Lustig
1.14 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Zart Und Singend
1.15 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Frisch
1.16 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Mit Gutem Humor
1.17 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Wie Aus Der Ferne
1.18 Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6: Nicht Scnell
1.19 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Des Abends
1.20 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Aufschwung
1.21 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Warum
1.22 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Grillen
1.23 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: In Der Nacht
1.24 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Fabel
1.25 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Truameswirrn
1.26 Fantasiestucke, Op.12: Ende Vom Lied
