Schumann Chamber Music

Nash Ensemble

Schumann Chamber Music
Format
Audio
Published
8 May 2012
ISBN
0034571179230

Schumann Chamber Music

Nash Ensemble

Catalogue # CDA67923

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Among Schumann’s inspired late chamber works is a collection of\nmusic for more unusual instruments, composed in a concentrated\nflurry of creativity between 1849 and 1853 and written specifically\nfor particular players, and it is to these exquisite short works\nthat the world-famous Nash Ensemble turns its impeccable collective\nmusicianship.

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While Schumann modelled his music specifically to the timbres of\nthe instruments he wrote for—piano, violin, horn, clarinet and\noboe—he also arranged these pieces for alternative instruments with\nan eye to maximizing sales. Here, however, the soloists from The\nNash Ensemble present the works in their original scoring in what\nare bound to be definitive performances—the delicious\nFantasiestücke for clarinet, and the fiery and lyrical\nMärchenbilder, which feature star British viola player Lawrence\nPower. Other delights include the Adagio and Allegro for horn, a\nbrilliant showpiece, the Violin Sonata No 1, Drei Romanzen for oboe\nand piano and the Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and\npiano.

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Schumann:

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Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70
\nRichard Watkins (horn) & Ian Brown (piano)

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Märchenbilder (4), Op. 113
\nLawrence Power (viola) & Ian Brown (piano)

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Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
\nRichard Hosford (clarinet) & Ian Brown (piano)

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Märchenerzählungen (4) for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, Op.\n132
\nRichard Hosford (clarinet), Lawrence Power (viola) & Ian Brown\n(piano)

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Romances (3), Op. 94
\nGareth Hulse (oboe) & Ian Brown (piano)

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Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
\nMarianne Thorsen (violin) & Ian Brown (piano)

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The Nash Ensemble

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