Schumann

Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Schumann: The Symphonies & Overtures (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 4, 2023

Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Schumann: The Symphonies & Overtures (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 895 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 534 MB
3:49:47 | Classical | Label: BIS

During their long collaboration (1997 - 2019) Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra developed a project they named ‘Opening Doors’, performing orchestral works from the Romantic era with the smaller-than-usual forces of a chamber orchestra. Due to the often revelatory results of this approach, the team went on to present at concerts around the world and on several recordings.
This box set brings together an important chapter of the project: Robert Schumann’s orchestral music, symphonies as well as overtures. In addition to his four symphonies - including both versions of No. 4 - this collection presents the Zwickau Symphony, an early, unfinished work from 1832-33, as well as a divertimento-like sequence of movements, Overture, Scherzo and Finale.

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Gerhard Oppitz - Schumann: Piano Works (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 4, 2023

Gerhard Oppitz - Schumann: Piano Works (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 428 MB
2:22:17 | Classical | Label: haenssler CLASSIC

Within the realm of Romantic piano music, where new discoveries are constantly just around the corner, the contribution of Robert Schumann has always played a major part. True, he cannot rival the aura of Chopin’s works, of which Ignaz Friedman asserted that not only had Chopin opened the piano with them, he had closed it again. (Schumann paid his own tribute in his reverent review of Chopin’s op. 2 of 1831, the Variations on Mozart’s “Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben”). Nor did Schumann embed in the history of piano playing such milestones of technical mastery and manual dexterity as Liszt who – inspired by Paganini’s concerts and enabled by the double-escapement action developed by Sébastien Erard in 1821 – had practically reinvented the instrument by the time he wrote his Etudes d’exécution transcendante in 1837. And neither the sprightliness of Felix Mendelssohn’s keyboard idiom nor Charles-Valentin Alkan’s exaltation of virtuosity are characteristic of Schumann’s piano music, even if he proves in his Abegg Variations op. 1 (1830) and his Toccata op. 7 (1832) that he brilliantly commanded both approaches to the instrument.

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Louis Lortie - Brahms, Schumann: Piano Works (1994) Music

Posted by pgf000 at Dec. 25, 2010

Louis Lortie, OC, CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a French-Canadian pianist. He currently lives in Berlin. He is known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven. He is an international soloist, and has made over 30 recordings on the Chandos label. Born in Montreal, Louis Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years later. Soon after he performed an historic tour of the People’s Republic of China and Japan. He won First Prize in the Busoni Competition in 1984. He was also a prize-winner at the Leeds Competition. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec as well as an honorary doctorate from Université Laval. He also teaches at Italy’s renowned piano institute at Imola.

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Clara Schumann · Complete Piano Works · Jozef De Beenhouwer Music

Posted by enjopin at Dec. 8, 2009

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Yaara Tal - Love? Homage to Clara Schumann (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Aug. 9, 2019

Yaara Tal - Love? Homage to Clara Schumann (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96.0 kHz | Time - 57:22 | 864 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

13 September 2019 marks the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann, one of the most important musicians of the 19th century: a virtuoso pianist and composer, more and more of whose works are now being recorded. The pieces on this album, which has been intelligently compiled by pianist Yaara Tal, tell their own story of the friendships and impossible loves which gravitated around the Schumanns.

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Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Schumann The Symphonies & Overtures (2023) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Jan. 4, 2023

Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Schumann The Symphonies & Overtures (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 03:50:01 minutes | 2.00 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

He takes Schumann’s Allegro molto vivace marking to heart and drives the first movement at a stimulatingly brisk pace.

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Dejan Lazic - Schumann, Brahms: Liaisons Vol. 2 (2009) MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by at May 23, 2024

Dejan Lazić's "Liaisons" Series is a double-portrait series. It always combines two composers in order to explore more thoroughly their musical worlds, the way they inspired and were inspired by, as well as to find their common denominators and bring them closer to each other. The second part of the series features the works by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

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VA - Schumann: The Essentials (2018) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 19, 2018

VA - Schumann: The Essentials (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 390 MB
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Tracks: 25 | Time: 106:02 min

German composer who was leading light in the development of Romanticism

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Géza Anda - Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 1 ; Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17; Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 27, 2021

Géza Anda - Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 1 ; Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17; Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:18:03 | 308 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Since his death in 1976 at the age of 55, Géza Anda's considerable reputation has faded somewhat from view. But in his heyday he was widely regarded as a transcendent pianist, possessed of a natural technique that gave his performances an intimate quality, even when he was scaling the Himalayan heights of his signature Brahms B flat major concerto. It was with that work that he made his debut in 1939 in Budapest under Willem Mengelberg. Anda was born in 1921 in Budapest; after studying with Imre Stefaniai and Imre Keeri-Szanto, he became a piano pupil of Ernst von Dohnányi at the Royal Music Academy.

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Costanza Principe - Schumann: Piano Music (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 22, 2022

Costanza Principe - Schumann: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 64:06 minutes | 528 MB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

An impressive debut from a charismatic young pianist with a passion for Schumann.

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