Anyone else notice the 'revised' ending of today's lunchtime performance of the Schumann C major Fantasy - the usual closing bars plus the Adagio ending of the first part of the piece, where he quotes An die ferne Geliebte. I presume it wasn't an editing fault(?) and don't recall hearing this before but it actually worked very well.
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There are definitely two versions of the work, but I couldn't say whether or not this was the less frequently played original one. -
Ah, that would explain it, many thanks.
I've never heard it played before in that version but having Googled, I found the following for anyone else interested in this somewhat arcane point: http://www.henle.de/en/schumann-anni...n-b-minor.htmlComment
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That Henle page mentions that Charles Rosen had recorded the original version - and he also wrote about it, at some length, in the 'Fragments' chapter of The Romantic Generation, p.110.Comment
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It's the autograph version. Also played by András Schiff, who supplies both endings, and by at least one other pianist on record.
(I generally play it as well when bashing through the Fantasie, finding the final one pretty unsatisfying.)Comment
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