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Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)

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Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)

Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Humoreske Op. 20;
Studien für den Pedalflügel Op. 56; Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133 (2010)

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 173 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 50999 642022 0 4 | Time: 01:03:35

The highly personal and often chimerical piano music of Robert Schumann requires a confident interpreter who can enter the music with full awareness of the composer's quirks, yet not become so involved with their strangeness that he gets lost. For this Virgin release, the brilliant Piotr Anderszewski has chosen two works that show the extremes of Schumann's divided personality: the youthful and playful Humoresque, Op. 20, and the late, madness-tinged Morning Songs, Op. 133. In between them is the sober set of Studies for the Pedal Piano, Op. 56, which, in its serious counterpoint and controlled expressions, stands apart from Schumann's wild mood swings and emotionally turbulent music. Because these three works are seldom performed and are open to fresh possibilities, Anderszewski has free reign to explore the whimsy and sorrow of the Humoresque, the intellectuality of the Studies, and the brooding of the Morning Songs, and the range of his comprehension and expression is wide indeed. To understand Schumann's personality certainly requires exposure to much more than a single CD of his keyboard pieces, no matter how well played, but if one needed an album to encapsulate the composer's musical life in soul-stirring performances, Anderszewski's disc would be an excellent resource.

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)

The first thing I ever heard about Schumann, as a child, was that he was ‘a musician’s musician’. To judge from the relatively limited celebrations of his bicentenary, as compared with Chopin’s in the same year, he still is. Though deeply beloved of many pianists, few of his piano works have achieved true popularity. Thus there will be many music-lovers to whom most of the music on this very special CD will be unfamiliar.

Almost unknown, even to pianists, are the Six Studies for Pedal Piano, originally composed for an instrument fitted with a pedal keyboard, once used by organists for domestic practice. Seldom heard, even in Debussy’s beautiful arrangement for two pianos, the Studies have languished beyond the reach of mere two-handed pianists. Until now.

It is to be hoped that virtuoso Piotr Anderszewski’s ravishing and exceptionally clever new arrangement will finally deliver these enchanting, graceful, deeply touching pieces into the pianistic mainstream. Here, and throughout this treasurable release, he combines a superlative pianistic tonal palette with an immensely sophisticated rhythmic vocabulary, a rare capacity to illuminate Schumann’s polyphonic textures, and a gift for thematic conversation fit to make most performers, not excepting conductors, look to their laurels.

Schumann’s unique combination of intimacy and drama, like his quicksilver juxtapositions of vividly contrasting characters, has proved eternally elusive to all but a relative few. Of that few, none excels Anderszewski. His account of the beguiling Humoreske is Schumann playing of the highest class, as indeed is the rest of this recital. Bewitchingly compelling.

Review by Jeremy Siepmann, BBC Music Magazine


This is a really wonderful Schumann recital and one of the most moving piano recitals I have ever heard. Piotr Anderszewski has an integrity and intensity, as well as an artistic originality, that one very rarely finds among classical pianists. He captures the schizophrenic mood-swings, the dreamy lyricism, the capriciousness and brooding melancholy of these works in a way that I have not heard before.

He starts his recital with the Humoreske which is one of the composer’s more complex early piano creations. The opening section is full of lyrical, tonal and rhythmic contrasts: the dreamy opening section is beautifully phrased and shaped while the ensuing episodes are full of playful invention and contrast. I found Anderszewski’s tempi in the second and fifth sections rather sluggish although he brought out the multi-layered textures of the piece and a lot of the musical detail that one can miss in concert performances. The third and fourth sections were elegant and lyrical, while Anderszewski brought a real intensity and commitment to the last section of the work. Overall, I found this a very thoughtful and moving performance of the Humoreske that seemed to get to the heart and essence of Schumann’s music.

The six studies for pedal piano were a set of canons originally written for an instrument which was a cross between a piano and an organ. Anderwzewski has made his own arrangement of the work for piano solo and, having heard this, I do hope that many more pianists will now play this wonderful work in the concert hall. The first piece harks back to the style of Bach and Anderszewski sets in motion murmuring contrapuntal lines but through the use of pedal underscores the romantic nature of the piece. The second piece is a cradle song which is quintessential Schumann and which is charmingly and elegantly played. Anderszewski’s playing of the next two pieces in the set is absolutely glorious: he deploys a ravishing tone and exquisite and beautifully judged phrasing to bring out the lyricism and tonal contrasts of these wonderful works. In the fifth piece Anderszewski uses deft ornamentation and and a crisp staccato to suggest an army of elves, goblins and trolls.

The Gesange der Fruhe or Morning Songs is Schumann’s last compositions for piano and it was written just before the composer’s tragic mental breakdown. Anderszewski’s performance of the first two pieces in the set is profoundly thoughtful and moving with the chorale melody and triplets of the second piece in particular conjuring up the mental anguish and turmoil the composer must have been suffering. Anderszewski creates a sinuous web with the demisemiquavers of the fourth piece of the set while the recital ends with the quiet and insistent resignation of the last piece.

Review by Robert Beattie, MusicWeb International


Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)



Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)



Tracklist:

Humoreske Op. 20
01. Einfach. Sehr rasch und leicht. Noch rascher. Erstes Tempo. Wie im Anfang (5:44)
02. Hastig. Nach und nach schneller. Nach und nach immer lebhafter und stärker. Wie Vorher. Adagio (4:52)
03. Einfach und zart. Intermezzo. Adagio (5:24)
04. Innig (3:28)
05. Sehr lebhaft. Immer lebhafter. Stretta. Mit einigem Pomp (3:52)
06. Zum Beschluß. Allegro (7:09)

Studien für den Pedalflügel Op. 56
07. I. Nicht zu schnell (2:05)
08. II. Mit innigem Ausdruck (4:02)
09. III. Andantino. Etwas schnelle (2:09)
10. IV. Innig. Etwas bewegter (4:26)
11. V. Nicht zu schnell (2:40)
12. VI. Adagio (4:30)

Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133
13. I. Im ruhigen Tempo (3:20)
14. II. Belebt, nicht zu rasch (1:45)
15. III. Lebhaft (2:37)
16. IV. Bewegt (2:12)
17. V. Im Anfange ruhiges, im Verlauf bewegteres Tempo (3:20)


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Piotr Anderszewski - Robert Schumann: Piano Works (2010)

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