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Schumann : La musique pour piano à 4 mains. Plano, Del Negro.
Format : 2 CD
Total Time : 02:09:12

Recording : 07/03-27/07/2018
Location : Bernareggio
Country : Italie
Sound : Studio / Stereo

Label : Brilliant Classics
Catalog No. : BRIL95675
EAN : 5028421956756

Publishing Year : 2019
Release Date : 30/10/2019

Genre : Classical
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
8 Polonaises pour piano à 4 mains, Ang. G1
12 vierhändige Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kinder, op. 85
Bilder aus Osten, op. 66
Ball-Szenen, op. 109
Kinderball, op. 130

Roberto Plano, piano
Paola Del Negro, piano

À quatre mains, chère demoiselle Wieck, si vous le voulez bien ! Car c'est évidemment à Clara que pensait d'abord Robert pour pareille configuration pianistique (où à notre avis ne fulgure cependant jamais vraiment l'éclat le plus emportant de son génie). Laquelle Clara tout enfant composa déjà pour son premier opus quatre polonaises, dont la publication remporta un vif succès. Dans celles de son amoureux puis mari, on entend nettement encore l'influence du ländler schubertien, et en tendant l'oreille plusieurs thématiques de Papillons (surtout la quatrième polonaise, aussi la septième). Entre scènes d'enfants et album de la jeunesse, l'opus 85, qui fut l'objet de plusieurs transcriptions (y compris de Saint-Saëns), constitue un charmant divertissement festif pour l'intimité du foyer d'un compositeur père de famille. De toute autre ambition musicale et on pourrait presque dire picturale, Bilder aus Osten (Images d'Orient, un titre comme à la Pierre Loti), à une époque où Schumann commençait à avoir des problèmes physico-somatiques (notamment d'acouphène), illustre des poèmes arabes dans une traduction de Rückert qui suscita un vif engouement. Six impromptus où n'est pas absente l'opposition entre l'esprit rêveur d'Eusebius et celui conquérant de Florestan, mais où un lyrisme profondément schumannien écarte radicalement tout descriptif exotique facile. Et l'enregistrement parfait de finesse et de musicalité de ce présent duo pianistique italien se conclut logiquement avec deux suites illustrant ô combien le double tropisme magique de l'âme masquée schumanienne : le bal et l'enfance. (Gilles-Daniel Percet)

Schumann always enjoyed playing piano four-hands, even after the injury to his right hand curtailed any hope of a professional career. Playing this way was in any case associated with domestic pleasure rather than concert-giving, though plenty of composers in the early-Romantic era began to supply music for a hungry market of dedicated amateur musicians, Schumann included. His first work in the genre was a set of eight Polonaises written in 1828 and very much modelled on the example of Schubert, who died later the same year. These are outgoing works of tremendous charm and lively character, designed for enjoyment on the part of the musicians at least as much as the listener. Curiously Schumann did not return to the genre in the full flower of his career. The next four-hands work dates from 20 years later, a set of six Bilder aus Östen (Pictures from the East) which he wrote as a Christmas present for his wife Clara in 1848. In these impromptus, vigorous and meditative moods alternate before culminating in No.6, where the two coexist. There followed the following year a set of 12 pieces Op.85 ‘for small and big children’. The published preface went some way towards explaining this lacuna in Schumann’s output: ‘Over the past 20 years there has been increasing awareness of the lack of short and substantial works originally composed for piano 4-hands. This most recent work by our brilliant Schumann will thus prove to be doubly welcome.’ And so it has been with piano students ever since, from the joyous processional of the opening birthday march to the playful Dance of Bears, sprightly Round Dance and tender slow numbers such as the concluding Evening Song. Schumann’s remaining music for piano four-hands shared this purpose of teaching and delighting children, as well as their teachers and parents: the Ball-Szenen and Kinder-Ball sets of miniatures both dating from 1853. Plano and del Negro have long enjoyed a fruitful duet partnership; this is their first album together for Brilliant Classics, but Plano has accumulated an impressive catalogue of recordings for the label including music by Luchesi, Piatti, Sgambati and Smetana. The Luchesi (BC95811) was reviewed in glowing terms by Classics Today: ‘this wonderful pianist’s sensitive, intelligently inflected interpretations. Plano truly makes the music sound better than it is, and his artistry holds your attention… (9/10)'.

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