Great Schumann Fantasiestuecke op 12??

SDC Legendz Pianistz
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What are your favorite interpretations? Either I don’t like the work or I haven’t yet found mine…

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Le Sage. Also Moiseiwitsch for Das Abends and Warum. Leon Macawley is also a bit interesting in this one I think.

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Thanks! I have heard good things about Le Sage in general, have to check him out. Also Moiseiwitsch. Don’t know MacCawleys so far, I’m quite curious.

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my fav is a live version from Emanual Ax. I love this piece btw, always keen for new recordings.

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Is that version on CD? I could only find what is apparently a studio version by Ax:
arkivmusic.com/classical/alb … _id=226713

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Oh now I know which one you probably mean (the live from Aug 2009). I do have that one. That’s really lovely - listening now… 'Thanks for reminding me of this!

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Richter on DG is excellent, though incomplete. I also like Moiseiwitsch, Rubinstein, Virsaladze and Yudina. Argerich and Perahia are ok.

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Good you mention Virssaladze – I didn’t know it existed. There are two recordings from Yudina – I remember really enjoying one of them (can’t remember which !)

I have Rubinstein’s but I’ve never enjoyed it. The Perahia is an early recording, made when he was still a hippy, and as you say, it’s not bad.

We all seem to like Moseiewitch – I have high hopes of the Virssaladze. Sometimes Moiseiwitsch is a bit too slick and polished for me. Virssaladze found just the right style in Waldszenen: maybe she does so here too.

I may have a bootleg of Ranki doing it on my hard drive – he played a lot of Schumann last year and I’ve not listened to some of the stuff people sent me yet. If so it could be just amazing – he’s at the top of his game right now I think, and the Schumann I have heard (a glorious Humareske, for example) was phenomenal.

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Thanks! I’ll try those.

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I’d be interested to know what you think of the Ranki, if you have it.

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Mandryka, would you perhaps upload some highlights from your Ranki bootlegs (e.g. the Schumann Humoreske?) I’m very interested in Ranki, and there are only few recordings…

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Sure. Here’s the Humoreske, which is from a concert in Budapest last year

http://www.goear.com/listen/5e4e419/humoreske-ranki

There was no Fantasiestuke. From Schumann, there is a selection from Album for the Young, Kinderszenen and the Fantasie, and the Humoreske. I’ve only listened to the Album for the Young and the Humoreske and I like both.

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Thanks very much, Mandryka. Can’t wait to listen to this.

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The Humoreske is terrific IMO! Thanks!! Can I download the file from this site or is it for listening only?

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If you are still looking, you might try these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqISnALXLfA

Bianconi is not best known for his SDC-like qualities - probably because his core repertoire is of another kind - but there is not really much fury to unleash in a piece like “Warum?” or in the “Gesaenge der Fruehe” (which are also well worth watching, while you are about it).

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Thanks very much. Just listening. Very impressed. He did not record it on CD, though? (At least I could not find it, though he did record a few Schumann works).

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He hasn’t recorded very much at all; those Schumann recordings go back about fifteen years. But he is much better in the concert hall anyway, I think, even a video is no substitute.

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Rubinstein played it at the “last concert” very poetical, though his earlier version is not so good.
Egon Petri - 1960 (live) for me is the best forever! (Music & Arts 4 CD-set)
Severin Eisenberger - 1937 October 23, live for “Des Abends” & “Aufschwung” (on OPAL CD). His Chopin Piano concerto No. 2 is also a wonder. (Not to mention his Schubert-Liszt Soirée de Vienne No. 6)