Schumann: Piano Works Gerhard Oppitz

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6:
• 1 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 1, Lebhaft 01:48
• 2 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 2, Innig 01:52
• 3 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 3, Mit Humor 01:35
• 4 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 4, Ungeduldig 01:00
• 5 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 5, Einfach 02:28
• 6 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 6, Sehr rasch 01:56
• 7 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 7, Nicht schnell 03:37
• 8 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 8, Frisch 01:06
• 9 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 9, Lebhaft 01:48
• 10 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 10, Balladenmäßig 01:46
• 11 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 11, Einfach 02:16
• 12 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 12, Mit Humor 00:47
• 13 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 13, Wild und lustig 03:26
• 14 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 14, Zart und singend 03:08
• 15 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 15, Frisch 02:04
• 16 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 16, Mit gutem Humor 01:53
• 17 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 17, Wie aus der Ferne 04:32
• 18 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6: No. 18, Nicht schnell 02:43
• Humoreske, Op. 20:
• 19 Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20 31:31
• Grand Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (Excerpts):
• 20 Schumann: Grand Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (Excerpts): I. Allegro 08:08
• 21 Schumann: Grand Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (Excerpts): II. Scherzo. Molto comodo 06:32
• 22 Schumann: Grand Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (Excerpts): III. Quasi Variazioni 07:29
• 23 Schumann: Grand Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (Excerpts): IV. Prestissimo possible 08:03
• Arabeske, Op. 18:
• 24 Schumann: Arabeske, Op. 18 06:56
• Blumenstück, Op. 19:
• 25 Schumann: Blumenstück, Op. 19 08:17
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26:
• 26 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 1, Sehr lebhaft 10:37
• 27 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 2, Romanze. Ziemlich langsam 02:29
• 28 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 3, Scherzino 02:26
• 29 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 4, Intermezzo. Mit größter Energie 02:25
• 30 Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26: No. 5, Finale. Höchst lebhaft 06:24
• Total Runtime 02:21:02

Info for Schumann: Piano Works

Within the realm of Romantic piano music, where new discoveries are constantly just around the corner, the contribution of Robert Schumann has always played a major part. True, he cannot rival the aura of Chopin’s works, of which Ignaz Friedman asserted that not only had Chopin opened the piano with them, he had closed it again. (Schumann paid his own tribute in his reverent review of Chopin’s op. 2 of 1831, the Variations on Mozart’s “Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben”).

Nor did Schumann embed in the history of piano playing such milestones of technical mastery and manual dexterity as Liszt who – inspired by Paganini’s concerts and enabled by the double-escapement action developed by Sébastien Erard in 1821 – had practically reinvented the instrument by the time he wrote his Etudes d’exécution transcendante in 1837.

And neither the sprightliness of Felix Mendelssohn’s keyboard idiom nor Charles-Valentin Alkan’s exaltation of virtuosity are characteristic of Schumann’s piano music, even if he proves in his Abegg Variations op. 1 (1830) and his Toccata op. 7 (1832) that he brilliantly commanded both approaches to the instrument.

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