Kempff & Horowitz plays Schumann Kinderszenen (I)

Kinderszenen ("Scenes from Childhood"), Opus 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. In this work, Schumann provides his adult reminiscences of childhood. Schumann had originally written 30 movements for this work, but chose 13 for the final version.

Schumann had originally labeled this work Leichte Stücke (Easy Pieces). Likewise, the section titles were only added after the completion of the music, and Schumann described the titles as "nothing more than delicate hints for execution and interpretation"...

PART I
- Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (About Foreign Lands and Peoples)
- Kuriose Geschichte (Curious Story)
- Hasche-Mann (Blindman's Buff)
- Bittendes Kind (Pleading Child),
- Glückes genug (Happy enough)

PART II / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoDNOWzqtI4
- Wichtige Begebenheit (Important Event)
- Träumerei (Dreaming)
- Am Kamin (By the Fireside)

PART III / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuuJTr8vg4M
- Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Rocking-Horse Knight)
- Fast zu ernst (Almost Too Serious)
- Fürchtenmachen (Frightening)

PART IV / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0OERCPbAg
- Kind im Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep)
- Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks)

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[Harryisagod]

Truely delightful

[lovesGenet]

Well,I do prefer to have the outer voices louder than middle ones Horo,Moisew,Argerich do this.Kempff chooses disconcerting approach.Delicacy and superbly judged attacks still make Kempff less songful than so many others .Strange sinse that's the quality I admire in his Beet sonatas. He seems not to dream here. Horo's accent 's blindman's buff sounds right here!-It sounds better here than on another post. Horowitz color here is divine !

[NaturVita]

this is sublime!