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In Reply to: Schumann Carnaval - favourites? posted by andy evans on April 3, 2014 at 05:38:21:
Well, the "Chiarina" movement is a portrait of Clara, but that's about all I know of directly related to her in this work - Wikipedia has a good article on Carnaval.
As for favorite recordings, I haven't heard it in over four decades now, but. . .
. . . I have very fond memories of this one, and I wish some of ID's Columbia recordings would get reissued. There was a Haydn/Mozart/Scarlatti disc that I also remember as being tremendous. Oops! - Here it is:
A lot of recordings of Carnaval are just not on my wavelength - the rubato in most performances just seems wrong, often there's too much of it, and the technical demands are just not met at a high enough level. Of more recently issued recordings (i.e., ones that you can actually buy for a reasonable price - unlike the recording pictured above!), I guess I like the in-concert Michelangeli performance on Testament, Egorov on EMI, Cecile Licad on Sony - don't laugh, Imelda Marcos' pianistic ambassador does a great job with this piece. Of course, there's the classic Rachmaninoff interpretation - a one-of-a-kind take on this work, which Rachmaninoff succeeds with through sheer force of technique and personality.
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- RE: Schumann Carnaval - favourites? - Chris from Lafayette 15:57:33 04/03/14 (3)
- Last time I heard it was live... - Ivan303 19:03:24 04/03/14 (1)
- You do know Jon has a new recording of Carnaval, right? - Chris from Lafayette 00:25:12 04/04/14 (0)
- I clicked on your post fully expecting that you'd posted a picture... - Ivan303 18:45:27 04/03/14 (0)
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