Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856)

[clive heath]

Just a blatant plug for Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet in the Piano Quintet, Myra Hess in the Piano Concerto, and uploaded very recently, Edwin Fischer playing the Fantasy Op.17. All to be found in

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/transcriptions_07.php

[Mandryka]

I heard Ibragimova and Tiberghien playing the 1st and 2nd violin sonatas at Wigmore yesterday. Not a bad concert, it’s being broadcast on BBC later this week I think.

But that second sonata! And especially its long first movement. Does anyone make it come off the page? Maybe it’s just me but it seemed like very mediocre music in the concert. That whole sonata seemed disappointing apart from the (wonderful) variations.

[Bryn]

I heard Ibragimova and Tiberghien playing the 1st and 2nd violin sonatas at Wigmore yesterday. Not a bad concert, it’s being broadcast on BBC later this week I think.

But that second sonata! And especially its long first movement. Does anyone make it come off the page? Maybe it’s just me but it seemed like very mediocre music in the concert. That whole sonata seemed disappointing apart from the (wonderful) variations.

It was broadcast 'live' yesterday. There is a repeat broadcast next Sunday. Not works I am yet familiar with.

[gradus]

I heard Ibragimova and Tiberghien playing the 1st and 2nd violin sonatas at Wigmore yesterday. Not a bad concert, it’s being broadcast on BBC later this week I think.

But that second sonata! And especially its long first movement. Does anyone make it come off the page? Maybe it’s just me but it seemed like very mediocre music in the concert. That whole sonata seemed disappointing apart from the (wonderful) variations.

Knowing neither works, it was the first that appealed to me, so original and gripping.

[gurnemanz]

I first heard these works via a very good recording of Sonatas 1 and 2 with Gidon Kremer & Martha Argerich from 1985, part of the DG Schumann 200th Anniversary box from 2010 and my interest in them was revived very recently with the different sound world of a vivid new recording from Eriikka Maalismaa on a gut string violin from 1770 and Emil Holmström on an Érard piano from 1862. Compelling right from the icy stabs of the opening chords of No 2 which starts the disc. Its cover image is appropriately chilly-looking :
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...violin-sonatas)

[Mandryka]

Knowing neither works, it was the first that appealed to me, so original and gripping.

The first sonata is excellent! Someone has just told me that yesterday’s performance is now on YouTube.

[Bryn]

The first sonata is excellent! Someone has just told me that yesterday’s performance is now on YouTube.

The sound quality will be superior here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lnzk