Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: Robert Schumann, Leif Ove Andsnes Title: Schumann : Piano Sonata No. 1-Fantasy Andsnes Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Capitol Release Date: 8/19/1997 Album Type: Import Genre: Classical Styles: Forms & Genres, Fantasies, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Romantic (c.1820-1910), Instruments, Keyboard Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 724355641427 |
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Schumann's F-sharp Minor Sonata is a hard nut to crack, but the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes does better than most. He pounces upon the quirky rhythmic ambiguities, clarifying and varying knotty textures with... more » |
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Amazon.com Schumann's F-sharp Minor Sonata is a hard nut to crack, but the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes does better than most. He pounces upon the quirky rhythmic ambiguities, clarifying and varying knotty textures with felicitous voicings. His detailing, however, never becomes fussy or discontiguous. The thickest chords resonate more tellingly than in the streamlined Pollini and Perahia recordings. Andsnes plunges into the Fantasy's murky waters, savoring but never dwindling over every harmonic and contrapuntal nicety. Some may prefer less intervention and more inwardness in the last movement, but a first-class, musicianly mind is clearly at work. Schumann lovers should snap this one up posthaste. --Jed Distler Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsMagical memory J. L. Wong | Pennsylvania | 02/18/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "My daughter and I saw Andsnes and Tetzlaff (sp?) In Perelman Hall in the new Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA (USA, where we are not all boors ) in January, 2002. His interpretation of the Schumann was spellbinding. I wish they would re-release this disc so that it could be available at the venues where he plays live." The youthful Andsnes at his freshest Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 09/10/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "Without doubt the most famous Norwegian pianist of the past fifty years, if not more, Andsnes has become a huge favorite in England. In part this may be due to his restraint. Though endowed with cirtuosic technqiue, his playng tends to be light, fresh, and a bit reserved. He's the backup man to call when Perahia has the flu. Of the dozen of so recordings I've heard from Andsnes, I think I like this Schumann colleciton the best. The sprawling Schumann Sonata #1 can be exhausting to sit through (listen to Kissin's account on BMG), a pitfall Andsnes avoids by keeping the rhythms springy, the chords oncongested, and the couterpoint crystal clear. He's helped by EMI's very pleasing, lyrical piano sound.
As one of the previous reviewers notes, Andnes provides a gloriously lyrical opening to the Fantasy in C, but he runs into great performances from Pollini, Kissin, Richter, and Kempff, just to name some personal favorites. Even so, music can only be heard with one pair of ears, and this reading has all the virtues of the sonata. In sum, a winning recital." |
