Composer: Robert Schumann, Jörg Widmann
Performer: Aaron Pilsan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA896
Release: 2023
Size: 983 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
01. No. 1, Äussert bewegt
02. No. 2, Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
03. No. 3, Sehr aufgeregt
04. No. 4, Sehr langsam
05. No. 5, Sehr lebhaft
06. No. 6, Sehr langsam
07. No. 7, Sehr rasch
08. No. 8, Schnell und spielend
Widmann: Elf Humoresken
09. No. 1, Kinderlied
10. No. 2, Fast zu ernst
11. No. 3, Anfangs lebhaft
12. No. 4, Waldszene
13. No. 5, Choral
14. No. 6, Warum?
15. No. 7, Intermezzo
16. No. 8, Zerrinnendes Bild
17. No. 9, Glocken
18. No. 10, Lied im traume
19. No. 11, Mit Humor und Feinsinn
Schumann: Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 (‘Geistervariationen’)
20. I. Leise, innig
21. II. Var. I
22. III. Var. Canonish
23. IV. Var. Etwas belebter
24. V. Var. IV
25. VI. Var. V
Schumann composed Kreisleriana in April 1838, at the age of 27, exactly the same age as Aaron Pilsan today : “The youthful thing that I can identify with in Kreisleriana is its spontaneity. If I had to describe the piece, I would use the German word for crazy, ‘verrückt’, which doesn’t just mean crazy,but also to be disconnected from reality. So, crazy, imaginative and intimate… There is a huge connection between these two German composers, as Jörg Widmann was inspired by Schumann’s music a lot and even his musical language is very similar, even though their styles are obviously very different. The starting point for Widmann’s music is from feelings, from the emotions and sentiments and that is where there is a similarity, but not only there. He even quotes Robert Schumann in histenth Humoreske, taking a bar directly from Schumann’s Geistervariationen.”