Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen & Janáček: On the overgrown path I

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Hamelin has already made several fine recordings of Schumann's piano music, focusing on big virtuoso pieces. He proves to be equally adept at exploring the more intimate side of the composer's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2014
Catalogue No: CDA68030
Label: Hyperion
Length: 74 minutes

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Excerpt, Janáček: On An Overgrown Path

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Book 1 No 01 Our evenings. Naše večery

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Book 1 No 02 A blown-away leaf. Lístek odvanutý

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Book 1 No 03 Come with us!. Pojďte namí!

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Book 1 No 04 The Frýdek Madonna. Frýdecká Panna Maria

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Book 1 No 05 They chattered like swallows. Štěbetaly jak laštovičky

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Book 1 No 06 Words fail!. Nelze domluvit!

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Book 1 No 07 Good night!. Dobrou noc!

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Book 1 No 08 Unutterable anguish. Tak neskonale úzko

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Book 1 No 09 In tears. V pláči

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Book 1 No 10 The barn owl has not flown away!. Sýček neodletěl!

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Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82

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I. Eintritt

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II. Jäger auf der Lauer

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III. Einsame Blumen

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IV. Verrufene Stelle

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V. Freundliche Landschaft

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VI. Herberge

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VII. Vogel als Prophet

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VIII. Jagdlied

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IX. Abschied

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Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15

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I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen

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II. Kuriose Geschichte

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III. Hasche-Mann

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IV. Bittendes Kind

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V. Glückes genug

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VI. Wichtige Begebenheit

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VII. Träumerei

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VIII. Am Kamin

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IX. Ritter vom Steckenpferd

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X. Fast zu ernst

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XI. Fürchtenmachen

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XII. Kind im Einschlummern

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XIII. Der Dichter spricht

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Marc-André presents a fascinating juxtaposition of two composers who are not obviously musically related, but who are proved on this album to be a felicitous combination.

Schumann’s well-loved Kinderszenen (‘Scenes from childhood’) cycle is a masterpiece: each piece is as deftly and exquisitely crafted as anything in his more outwardly sophisticated mode. From the haunting beauty of the opening ‘From foreign lands and people’ (‘Von fremden Ländern und Menschen’), via the spare eloquence of the central ‘Dreaming’ (‘Träumerei’), to the quiet rhetoric of ‘The poet speaks’ (‘Der Dichter spricht’), the listener is taken through nuances of emotion whose effects are heartrendingly poignant.

Waldszenen (‘Forest scenes’) is another collection of miniatures, and Schumann’s last major cycle for solo piano. This deeply ‘Romantic’ work in the most psychological sense of the word is no objective foray into the woods, but a very personal reaction to an imagined landscape; and equally striking is the sense that each piece represents just a shard of a larger experience. On the whole it is the more bucolic aspect that Schumann explores, though these pieces are not without darker shadows. And while they may be technically fairly straightforward, their changeability calls for the quickest of reactions and a wealth of subtle nuance.

Over half a century separates Schumann’s nature-inspired Waldszenen from the first book of Janáček’s On the overgrown path. The subject matter is darker and more oblique and the piano writing is deceptively treacherous, many of the difficulties far from overt. The title of the overall cycle refers to a Moravian wedding song, the bride lamenting that ‘The path to my mother’s has become overgrown with clover’. The sequence of ten pieces that comprises Book 1 constitutes, as the scholar John Tyrrell has written, some of the ‘profoundest, most disturbing music that Janáček had written, their impact quite out of proportion to their modest means and ambition’.

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July 2014

Hamelin has already made several fine recordings of Schumann's piano music, focusing on big virtuoso pieces. He proves to be equally adept at exploring the more intimate side of the composer's character and the two Schumann cycles here are absolutely magical.

June 2014

Time and again he makes you think vocally, of the range and flexibility of a great singer...the knife-edge between composer and interpreter, between creator and recreator is held in the finest balance.

Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen & Janáček: On the overgrown path I

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