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Posted by MichaelV8 on March 2, 2012 at 17:35:50

In Reply to: Thanks for your comments. posted by MichaelV* on March 2, 2012 at 11:58:43:

My problem with this work arose on playing the Leonard Pennario version from 1957 which is on the box set "The Early Works". I knew I had heard this Fantasy before and even had a version of it somewhere in my various CDs. Pennario sounded very different from my vague recollection of many years ago.

So I set off on a treasure hunt looking for the CD I knew of this. It was the Artur Rubinstein 1965 recording on RCA. Long story short, I found the Rubinstein and yes, what a difference. Rubinstein sounds poetic, in a sense, but "conventional". Enjoyable, yes. But Pennario makes this sound almost like a modern work. Much heavier left hand. And better sound too, even though mono. Excellent technically, although Rubinstein, even in 1965, had some great chops.

I have learned that Schumann is a difficult composer to interpret. I grew up with the Szell symphony recordings and only later in life did I come to prefer slower and more romantic interpretations of Schumann symphonies, eg, Celibidache in Sym 3.

Along with that, I've listened to some movements of this on Youtube. Richter's was very impressive. De Larrocha's was quite moving. I never would have thought to consider De Larrocha before. Before the week is out I should be getting Pollini's version and I'm most anxious to learn about how he compares.

To think, it is only in my declining years that I've discovered this wonderful piece of music. I never thought I'd have this much fun in my old age.

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Topic - Recs. wanted: Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 - MichaelV8 11:47:13 03/01/12 (27)

Andras Schiff is very different than any other performance (ECM) - pbarach 14:43:46 03/15/12 (1)

RE: Andras Schiff is very different than any other performance (ECM) - MichaelV8 16:20:35 03/15/12 (0)

RE: Recs. wanted: Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 - Mali 10:01:31 03/11/12 (1)

Thanks for that. - MichaelV8 11:08:10 03/15/12 (0)

Gramophone's "Collection" top of the heap was Perahia. I've not heard them all, but I prefer his supreme - jdaniel@jps.net 10:09:30 03/10/12 (1)

Annie Fischer - pbarach 14:03:02 03/10/12 (0)

Comments please on this update - MichaelV8 16:09:21 03/08/12 (0)

Thanks for your comments. - MichaelV* 11:58:43 03/02/12 (1)

Update - MichaelV8 17:35:50 03/02/12 (0)

STRONG recommendation for Edwin Fischer's version; 4-minutes shorter than Richter's, but - tinear 11:57:25 03/02/12 (1)

RE: STRONG recommendation for Edwin Fischer's version; 4-minutes shorter than Richter's, but - MichaelV8 18:01:24 03/03/12 (0)

I agree with many of the recomendations thus far - Chris from Lafayette 00:40:49 03/02/12 (3)

Poetic? - MichaelV8 17:32:30 03/05/12 (2)

Yes - excellent! - Chris from Lafayette 08:13:32 03/06/12 (1)

BTW - MichaelV8 16:49:12 03/07/12 (0)

RE: Recs. wanted: Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 - learsfool 16:32:00 03/01/12 (0)

RE: Recs. wanted: Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 - Chuck Y 15:49:24 03/01/12 (0)

RE: Recs. wanted: Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 - pbarach 13:56:40 03/01/12 (9)

RE: Kempff - MichaelV8 16:29:02 03/19/12 (1)

RE: Kempff - pbarach 16:34:28 03/19/12 (0)

Kempff - MichaelV8 17:38:12 03/07/12 (0)

We're going to have to disagree about Pollini on this - jult52 05:57:03 03/02/12 (5)

RE: We're going to have to disagree about Pollini on this - vahe 13:16:17 03/02/12 (2)

Movements that work - MichaelV8 17:26:01 03/07/12 (1)

Great project Michael - jult52 06:05:07 03/08/12 (0)

RE: We're going to have to disagree about Pollini on this - Mich 11:54:59 03/02/12 (0)

RE: We're going to have to disagree about Pollini on this - garf 06:32:56 03/02/12 (0)

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