Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Hideyo Harada
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audite
Catalogue: AUDITE92577
Release: 2010
Size: 234 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
01. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen – Im Legendenton – Erstes tempo
02. II. Mässig
03. III. Langsam getragen
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
04. I. Ausserst bewegt
05. II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
06. III. Sehr aufgeregt
07. IV. Sehr langsam
08. V. Sehr lebhaft
09. VI. Sehr langsam
10. VII. Sehr rasch
11. VIII. Schnell und spielend
12. Arabesque Op. 18
Following her highly successful recordings of Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, the Japanese pianist Hideyo Harada presents her third SACD with three key works by Schumann, celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a coherent interpretation, Schumann’s works offer several mysteries and countless possibilities. Harada exhibits a highly personal and carefully considered reading of these romantic works, realising with remarkable plasticity Schumann’s pivotal concerns from a crucial period of his artistic development: the wide, quasi-narrative context including stark contrasts and differentiated, filigree details; the characteristically free flow of tempo and the clear contours of the complex course of his music. Relationships to romantic literature – Kreisleriana – to the classical legacy of spacious musical design – Fantasie in C major – and to abstract visual art – Arabeske – accentuate the open horizon under which Schumann saw his music between 1836 and 1838.