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Robert Schumann | Schumann’s Fantasy

Total time: 58'24
Year: 2013
Format: CD
Type: Chamber music
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Country: Belgium
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Price: €20,00
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REF: CYP1667

Robert SCHUMANN
Adagio und Allegro for viola and piano, op. 70
Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano, op. 73
Drei Romanzen for clarinet and piano, op. 94
Märchenbilder for viola and piano, op. 113
Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and piano, op. 132


Arnaud THORETTE Viola
Jean-Luc VOTANO Clarinet
Johan FARJOT Piano


The present recording contrasts two crucial periods in the creative life of Schumann, when the works of his maturity are in dialogue with those of his twilight years, both groups together forming a repertory of chamber music, the conception of which accompanied the composer throughout his career. Rooted in the intimacy of home performances (starting with those of Schumann, who organised many “lively chamber music sessions”), these pieces are an exceptional record of the art of transcription in the nineteenth century – an art that is essential not just useful for expanding a repertory (that for clarinet and viola) unjustly shunned by the Romantics. Schumann’s Humor – a veritable chiaroscuro in music with a succession of expressions as varied as they are whimsical – is brilliantly encapsulated here, transforming musical time in a multifarious slideshow of often hallucinatory visions. Forming the Phantasie of the Romantics, the latter are incorporated into a form that is perceived as a narration, a description or a suggestion. In short, a tale in music, its marvellous, poetic dimension revealed by the fingers of the musicians of the Ensemble Contraste who, through their complicity and interactive listening, manage to recreate the hushed atmosphere of the salons and open for us the door leading to Schumann’s inner world, rich in imagery.


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