Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms (2023)
Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 210 Mb | Total time: 85:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3945 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 210 Mb | Total time: 85:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3945 | Recorded: 2022
The acclaimed British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 30 and yet a well-established favourite of critics and audiences around the globe, takes Robert Schumann’s haunting Kreisleriana as his starting point in his new album, Schumann & Brahms. This eight-movement work portrays the mercurial personality of the fictional Johannes Kreisler, created by E. T. A. Hoffmann: Kreisler’s highs and lows, and his dreamy nature, clearly mirror Schumann’s own tragic manic-depressive tendencies. Grosvenor responds to the composer’s autobiographical honesty with playing of sublime tenderness, dazzling variety, and imaginative empathy.
He accompanies the work with the melancholic Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann by Schumann’s beloved wife Clara (who, incidentally, stated that she was much disturbed by the visions conjured up in Kreisleriana). Further kaleidoscopic variety is provided by Robert’s Blumenstück, and Quasi Variazione: Andantino de Clara Wieck. The recital also includes Brahms’ Three Intermezzi, autumnal works which shed a fascinating light on the complicated relationship which existed between Robert, Clara and Brahms himself. Grosvenor’s own arrangement of Robert’s Abendlied completes the programme.
The recording is Benjamin Grosvenor’s seventh for Decca since 2011, when he became the youngest musician - and also the first British pianist in more than sixty years - to sign to the label. Since then he has won inter alia several Gramophone Awards, and the prestigious Diapason d’Or de l’année. After a spectacular win, at the age of just 11, in the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician competition, he went on to become the youngest soloist ever to appear at the opening night of the BBC Proms in 2011.
Performer:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Tracklist:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kreisleriana, Op.16
01. I. Äußerst bewegt
02. II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
03. III. Sehr aufgeregt
04. IV. Sehr langsam
05. V. Sehr lebhaft
06. VI. Sehr langsam
07. VII. Sehr rasch
08. VIII. Schnell und spielend
09. 3 Romanzen, Op.28 - No.2 in F sharp major: Einfach
10. Blumenstück, Op.19
11. Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.14 - III. Quasi variazioni
12. Abendlied, Op.85 No.12
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
13. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op.20
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Intermezzi, Op.117
14. No. 1 in E-Flat Major
15. No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
16. No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
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Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms (2023)
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