Davidsbundlertanzer / Fantasie in C major
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SCHUMANN
Davidsbundlertanzer / Fantasie in C major
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
[ Decca / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 September 2010
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More than 15 years since her acclaimed album of Carnaval and Kreisleriana [catalogue number 4758260], Mitsuko Uchida marks the Schumann bicentenary 2010 with her first recordings of two of his best-loved works for solo piano - Davidsbündlertänze and Fantasie.
With this new album, recorded at the Maltings at Snape, Dame Mitsuko shares the wealth of her experience as a Schumann interpreter - bringing to these enigmatic, questing pieces her celebrated musicality and depth of feeling.
Written after Schumann was again in touch with his beloved, Clara - whose father was determined she should never marry him - the Davidsbündlertänze are at once an outpouring of Schumann's feelings for her and a struggle between the two sides of the composer's own musical nature. Fantasie is a deeply introspective soliloquy, beautifully reflected through the emotional complexity of Mitsuko Uchida's pianism.
NOTE: This is a CD plus a bonus CD. The powers at Decca have decided that they will charge the cost of two full price CDs for this item. We wonder why?
"Schumann is obviously a composer with whom she feels a special affinity, and to whose music she brings a whole suite of special qualities...She naturally inclines towards the more introspective side of Schumann rather than his ebullient, extrovert alter ego, and infuses the more lyrical parts of the cycle with warmth and expressive generosity"
(Guardian)
"The quality she brings is the one they most need - an overarching concentration that stops them splintering apart, while maintaining a sense of poetry and spontaneity...the music's Janus-faced personality is enmeshed in almost every bar, to thrilling effect in Uchida's magisterial performance, which exults in Schumann's temperamental extremes while also harmonising them."
(Financial Times)
"In an interview with James Jolly, it is clear how passionate [Uchida] is about the composer (this fascinating conversation comes on a companion CD in the "Prestige Edition")...Her passionate verbal advocacy is translated into the equally compelling ardour of her performances of these two works...this has Gramophone Award-winner written all over it." (Gramophone Editor's Choice)
Tracks:
Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
