String Quartets op. 41-Although Schumann?s first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838/39 were only fragments the three String Quartets Op.41 in a minor F major and A major were written inone go in June/July 1842. At the first private performances the audience was enthusiastic and it was Mendelssohn?s praise in particular that occasioned Schumann to dedicate the ne…

Opus 132-No romantic poetry and no concrete fairytale figure occasioned Schumann to write this composition. Today we can assume that the title of the pieces originally entitled 'Romances' was merely supposed to conjure up a poetic andfairytale world. Presumably inspired by Mozart’s 'Kegelstatt' Trio K. 498 Schumann occupied himself intensively with plans for a work for this distinctive combi…

Schumann’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor Op. 54 is fine example of Romanticism and has a dynamic mood like much of his work. There is a sober atmosphere though dignified melody runs throughout but overall a unified and structured piece that broke away from the trend for virtuosic displays. Completed in 1845 when he appended two movements to the revised Fantasie; it is one of a…

Avec Le Pensionnaire d'Endenich et Lutter avec le bleu du ciel, Jean-Philippe Guye présente deux textes de théâtre musical, autour de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Robert Schumann et de Claude Debussy. Chaque spectacle est composé de six lettres ou monologues imaginaires, qui s'intercalent entre des pièces de musique de chambre avec piano et si possible voix. Le choix des oeuvres, leur ordre, la succes…

Sous la forme d'un journal imaginaire, Mélisande Chauveau a pris le parti original de donner la parole à Robert Schumann, entremêlant subtilement dans son récit anecdotes, témoignages de contemporains et extraits de lettres. Elle met l'homme au coeur du sujet dans la réalité musicale, sociale et économique de son époque, nous offrant une relecture passionnante et passionnée de la vie du compositeu…

Piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann (BWV 1004-1006) / Violon Et Piano

Piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann (BWV 1001-1003) / Violon Et Piano

17 well-known original pieces in progressive order of difficulty with practical comments-Schumann was a poet at the piano and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as ?Träumerei? (?Reverie?) ?Von fremden Ländern und Menschen? (?Of foreign lands and people?) or ?Vogel als Prophet? (?Thebird as prophet?). His whole oeuvre exudes a sense of poetic freedom making him the …

Selected pieces from the 19th century-German Romanticism (Chefs-d??uvre du romantisme allemand) rassemble un choix de morceaux sign?s des plus grands compositeurs de ce style parmi lesquels figure ? en termes d?histoire de la musique ? l?Autrichien Franz Schubert. Avec Carl Mariavon Weber il repr?sente les d?buts du romantisme tandis que Felix Mendelssohn et Robert Schumann appartiennent ? l?ap…

Composed during 1836-38 this work is dedicated to Franz Liszt who in turn dedicated his B minor Sonata to Schumann. It reflects Schumann's despair over his thwarted love affair with Clara Wieck.

At long last singers with a lower vocal range can also rely on Henle???s Urtext editions of Schumann: the wonderful Song Cycle op. 24 on poems by Heine now appears in a transposed version edited by Schumann expert Kazuko Ozawa. With the support of celebrated Lieder accompanist Gerold Huber Henle now offers altos carefully arranged transpositions for medium voice. This Urtext edition includes an…

für Chor und Orchester-'This has to be written all by oneself' is what Schumann is supposed to have said to his first biographer after the completion of the Requiem. Thus began a reception history of the work created in 1852 before the outbreak of depression and fatal disease that was characterised by prejudices.It is impossible to tell what prompted the protestant Schumann to compose a Catholic r…