I must have heard Schumann's five Gesänge der Frühe (Dawn Songs) but never really noticed them...
...they've come alive in Mitsuko Uchida's new recording
Especially the first one. I've listened to samples of a few other performance (e.g. Pollini) and they seem prosaic compared with MU who brings it alive, and makes it (and the others) seem as elusive and pungent as Fauré Nocturnes.
A princely 79p buys you No 1 here:
I would endorse entirely the user reviews (which for some reason only appear on the CD page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schumann-Min...chida+schumann )
And because it seemed technically not too bad, I looked for the score - the whole thing is downloadable free on this link (the picture of the page of music you see is the whole of No. 1 - click to see bigger):
So I've been spending time this weekend starting to learn it too! And thereby tripling my respect for MU's phrasing and touch...
...they've come alive in Mitsuko Uchida's new recording
Especially the first one. I've listened to samples of a few other performance (e.g. Pollini) and they seem prosaic compared with MU who brings it alive, and makes it (and the others) seem as elusive and pungent as Fauré Nocturnes.
A princely 79p buys you No 1 here:
I would endorse entirely the user reviews (which for some reason only appear on the CD page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schumann-Min...chida+schumann )
And because it seemed technically not too bad, I looked for the score - the whole thing is downloadable free on this link (the picture of the page of music you see is the whole of No. 1 - click to see bigger):
So I've been spending time this weekend starting to learn it too! And thereby tripling my respect for MU's phrasing and touch...
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