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Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set) Reviews
Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set) Reviews
| 70 of 70 people found the following review helpful:  Mystery meat, By This review is from: Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set) (Audio CD) I don't think I've ever before experienced such frustration in trying to assess a product. Here a well-regarded and fairly well-known pianist sits down and records all (even that's up for grabs) the piano music of a pretty well-known and well-regarded composer and barely a peep out there in Internet land. What I did encounter after a lot of searching, and according to different reviewers who deigned to barely mention this bulky and hard-to-ignore boxed set, was this dopey basketful of professional opinions: 1) The recording quality was poor according to one guy 2) The piano was out of tune according to some editor who happened to also be a piano tuner 3) The music was criminally recorded using a piano with beat hammers and strings 4) Demus may or may not have recorded the set with a period instrument that also may have had beat hammers and strings 5) Nobody should record Schumann on a period instrument according to another expert... Read more 39 of 39 people found the following review helpful: Mystery Solved, By boldsworthington (Washington, DC, United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set) (Audio CD) First off, thanks to Wayne A. for his extremely thoughtful and comprehensive review, which helped me decide to purchase this Nuova Era set (his reasoning about the unlikelihood that Demus would record this huge corpus again was especially insightful). I own the original 20-LP/6-volume Musical Heritage Society set issued between 1971 and 1973. Having seen the CD set in a store last year, I was puzzled about whether it was a transfer of these invaluable discs, which contain vast tracts of Schumann that you will be hard pressed to find elsewhere (included, for instance, are several posthumously issued works and even a few pieces played from unpublished manuscripts). Wayne's review gave me enough clues to suspect that these discs were exactly what I'd been waiting for. Having just received them, I'm happy to confirm that they are indeed the MHS performances (minus most of the four-hand works, however; see below). I instantly recognized the character of the... Read more 9 of 11 people found the following review helpful: Schumann: the personification of the Romantic ages!, By This review is from: Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set) (Audio CD) For some, Robert Schumann was the genuine personification of the XIX Century. If we analyze his entire life, surely we would be unable to find other composer more enrooted conscious or unconsciously with basic premises of this artistic movement. No other composer in that Century could shape with major vigor such level of febrile poetry, bowing phlegm, imaginative restless, fiery melodic fantasy and unequaled introspection those well known facets of his intimacy like him. Since his stormy love affair and marriage with Clara Wieck, his terrible personal disgrace when he maimed his finger pursuing major virtuosity, until his progressive metal illness and final breakdown. But on the other hand, he anticipated by far the initial seed of the Symphonic poem, through his countless and dissected works of marked self biographical landmark or those lovable pieces dedicated to his daughter, moreover he influenced in straight line to Claude Debussy because somehow he depicted... Read more |
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