Fast Fantasy

Track Listings

1. Fast Fantasy - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen

2. Cello Variations - Fred Sherry

3. Orbicle of Jasp - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen

4. Cello Variations II - Fred Sherry

5. Andante Espressivo - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen

6. Cello Variations III - Fred Sherry

7. Grand Union - Fred Sherry

Tracks:

Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: II. Massig. Durchaus energisch
Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17: III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Von fremden Landern und Menschen
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kuriose Geschichte
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Hasche-Mann
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Bittendes Kind
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Gluckes genug
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Wichtige Begebenheit
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traumerei
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Am Kamin
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Ritter vom Steckenpferd
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Fast zu ernst
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Furchtenmachen
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kind im Einschlummern
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Der Dichter spricht
Wanderer-Fantasie, D760: Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo
Wanderer-Fantasie, D760: Adagio
Wanderer-Fantasie, D760: Presto
Wanderer-Fantasie, D760: Allegro

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Curzon's performance of Schumann's Fantasy in C, initially released in 1954, remains among the greatest ever recorded. Instead of the stormy theatricality usually heard, the composer's direction that the first movement "be performed very imaginatively and passionately" makes the British pianist respond with a sense of chivalric ardor, no less passionate for all its nobility. Sonorousness is combined with tenderness; attention to detail with grandeur of proportion; and dramatic urgency with meditative lyricism. The majestic second movement march unfolds with unobtrusive power and unflagging rhythm. The Elysian final movement can sound repetitious in less-than-loving hands. But Curzon uses his command of shading, variety of touch, and knowledge of bel canto phrasing to create a sense of rapturous intoxication. He was as happy in miniatures as in large structures. Curzon's magical performance of the same composer's "Kinderszenen" suggests--in its delicacy of color, its exquisite textures, and its heartfelt (and difficult to achieve) simplicity of expression--the best Mozart. His distinguished reading of Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasy is heard here in a better-sounding transfer than on the volume dedicated to him in Philips's "Great Pianists" series. --Stephen Wigler

Customer Reviews:

A classic recording from Curzon.......2005-11-19

Towards the end of Robert Schumann's life, as he became more and more unhinged, he claimed to be taking direct musical dictation from angels. Clifford Curzon's towering and emotionally rich performance of these works leaves you in no doubt that this was indeed the case.

The Fantasie in C major is played with a passion and sensitivity all Curzon's own - it is as though the music was written especially for him; and with the Kinderszenen, he perfectly brings out the crystaline beauty in their apparent, lullabyesque simplicity.

Curzon's performance of Schubert's Wanderer-Fantasie is equally mesmerising. As a pianist, there are few who can match his talent and these recordings have rightly been included in Decca's Legendary Legend series. This comes highly recommended.

Few Great Pianists Sound like Him, If At All.......2005-01-22

I agree with what the editorial says. The pieces are as colourful as the stained glasses of some great Catherals (partly due to the French influence?) And perhaps he has got it from Schnabel, he has obviously captured the "butterfly by the wings" very well too. His sound as well as playing as a whole, however, reminds us above all of Edwin Fischer save and except a little less improvised! His interpretations on Kinderszenen is almost completely different from say Cortot-Kempff-Arrau, so that they would necessarily make you take another look into these pieces. Highly recommended.

Inspiring.......2002-04-11

Clifford Curzon can make you _hear_ a composer for the first time. That is the case with this recording. He achieves this not by exaggeration but by great sensitivity to the music's ebb and flow. (Be aware that the sound is good but clearly old. After repeated listening, this becomes unimportant.)

Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set)

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Good for the rare pieces.....but...
Mystery Solved
Mystery meat

Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set)

Manufacturer: Nuova Era
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Release Date: 2001-03-06

Customer Reviews:

Good for the rare pieces.....but..........2006-11-08

Overall, you will be hard up to find a more thoroughly complete two hand piano survey of Schumann's piano opus. However, for the more "popular" pieces such as the op 17, or the kinderszenen, these are decent to mediocre versions are best. They arent bad, Jorg Demus is a skilled pianist, though has always in my view been more successful in a supporting role, as evidenced by his masterful accompaniment in Dichterliebe and assorted Schubert lieder. If you are familiar with Richter's masterful Schumann interpretations-or Horowitz for many of the works, or Lupu, Argerich, these pale in comparison. If you are out for quantity-I would recommend the Ashkenazy set-though it is incomplete. Again, many of the works by schumann that you can only find here will only be of interest to the absolute Schumannaholic, which I am, but it is kind of a two way street because if you are a schumann madman, then you will know how third tier these performances truly are.

Mystery Solved.......2006-10-07

First off, thanks to WTA 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). WTA'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 piano sound and the recording acoustic (both much improved on CD), and a quick check of rhetorical gestures in a sonata movement that I especially value in Demus's hands showed the CD and LP versions to be identical. MHS did not always provide track timings for individual sections of the big piano suites. But where such detail exists, respective CD and LP timings are consistently mere seconds apart -- easily the result of different engineering choices for silent lead-ins and lead-outs to each track.

A further clue comes from a small note on the jewel-box tray inserts, indicating a 1989 digital remastering. I can think of no fully digital (DDD) recording that would be getting remastered so early in CD history. Anything from the '80s would almost certainly be making its first appearance in the new storage medium. Moreover, the sound has none of the hallmarks of DDD recordings (as WTA notes, for instance, Demus's recordings have detectable [but nonintrusive] background hiss).

So for all these reasons, I feel confident in declaring that this set is basically the old MHS offering. There are two sad omissions, however:

(1) The CD set includes all the solo pieces in the LP set, as well as a short, posthumously published F-minor Scherzo on CD 12 that MHS seems to have left out. Nuova Era, alas, omits the vast majority of the often-delightful four-hand works, for which Norman Shetler joined Demus (most of these items appeared in MHS's five-disc finale). The Sketches for Pedal Piano, Opp. 56 & 58, are here (perhaps because they were originally conceived for a now-forgotten solo instrument that had a pedalboard [Alkan was said to have been its greatest master]; on a modern instrument, Schumann's pedal-piano music thus takes two pianists), but -- shame on Nuova Era! -- Shetler gets no credit as the second pianist. If you'd like a fine but inexpensive tour of the four-hand output, try the three-disc VoxBox ("Schumann Complete Works For Piano 4-Hands") featuring Peter Frankl, Andras Schiff, et al.

(2) The CD set lacks the superb MHS album notes by Douglas Townsend. Also missing is Demus's own illuminating statement about recording these works across a span of about three years. These are thoroughly digested interpretations: Demus not only memorized every note but also played every last work in concert. Complete recordings like this one are not necessarily commercial gimmicks, as some so carelessly assert. A serious and sensitive musician who takes on such a task will uncover secrets and interconnections that only exposure to a composer's full output in a given area can progressively disclose. As Demus explains (in Herman Adler's translation from the German), "Only by knowing Schumann's creative output in its totality has it been possible to uncover fresh facets in overfamiliar standard works. [. . .] In the music of no other composer do we find as many cross-relations and associations throughout his work. Schumann likes to quote himself as well as other composers, as did, later, his French brother-in-spirit, Claude Debussy. [. . .] Only knowledge of this entire universe will result in something I would call *Stilsicherheit* (stylistic assurance)."

But let's not dwell on what's *not* here. As WTA observes, this is a deeply rewarding collection that every serious Schumann-lover will want to explore. Are these performances the last word on Schumann's poetic realm? Of course not: no such "last word" exists. The essential thing is that throughout this enormous journey, Demus never falsifies the music, and he plays with an honesty that can be far more illuminating than flashier approaches.

So, Schumann-lovers, get this set as cheaply as you can -- but one way or another, get it while you can!

Mystery meat.......2006-04-10

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 (without really letting us know if this was the case here)
6) The interpretations were wooden
7) The interpretations were fabulous despite the crappy sound and beat up old out-of-tune piano
8) Nobody was sure if this was his complete Schumann recorded in the 1970s and released on Musical Heritage or these were new DDD recordings as listed

OK--as the notes with this set absolutely stink and no one out in Internet land seems to have any consistent and coherent thing to say about it, this then is my judgement, based on careful listening and a few intelligent guesses.

1) The interpretations are great, wonderful, really enjoyable, idiomatic--some might consider them slightly wooden because there's next-to-no pedal which leads me to believe it is a period instrument he's recorded on. This isn't Argerich slamming away at these so don't expect that. Yamaha fans will be disappointed. Demus clearly knows his Schumann and plays crisply and accurately.
2) The sound quality, while hardly SACD, is just fine and, again if this is a period instrument and I sure tend to think so, what I'm hearing would be about right. I rather like the engineering as the result is intimate and warm
3) Honestly, did Demus record all these in the 1970s without them getting any attention and then do it all over again in the 1980s just to get ignored again? I hear distinct tape hiss if I listen closely, this doesn't sound like a 1989 DDD recording (which the box claims it to be) which is probably why the recording has some warmth and (audible tape hiss)
4) Who am I to argue with an editor/piano tuner but if this piano is out of tune I'm not noticing it one zot. Also, didn't they tune pianos a little differently way back in 1850 or so?

SO--I'll guess this is the complete piano music of Robert Schumann (perhaps minus one small piece according to yet another miffed commentator, although he keeps talking about a 12 CD set and this has 13 discs!)recorded in the 1970s with Jorg Demus playing a piano built around 1850 or so with everything that implies. I'll also guess that a lot of reviewers out there, left to fend for themselves without some promotional sheet from the label, maybe without even free promo copies, were really reaching a bit. Even if I'm wrong I seem to be doing better than the second-guessing I found elsewhere and anyway the result is really enjoyable. I simply like this set a lot even if someday I may discover it is, in fact, Ernest Borgnine playing a badly tuned pool hall upright in 1953. Less than no stars to Nuovo Era for never seeming to get the presentation of this delightful set right--license it to Brilliant and they'll do it up properly for Pete's sake and maybe you'll actually sell a few. They might even be able to kick down that DDD tape hiss a bit. It's also too danged expensive given even the putative late recording date--it shouldn't be more than $120 under any circumstances. I got mine for less than $40 at a classical cut-outs and deletions place.

Conclusion: This whole situation is sad. Jorg Demus is a great pianist and he obviously loves Schumann. Schumann's piano music is worth the effort. This should be a well-known and highly-regarded set and I'm happier with this than with any other big box of piano I may own, short of a Brahms set.

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Annie Fischer

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1996-03-12

Tracks:

Impromptu in A flat, Op.142 No.2 D.935/2
Impromptu in f, Op.142 No.4 D.935/4
Pno Son No.8 in c, Op.13 'Pathetique': I. Grave-Allegro molto e con brio
Pno Son No.8 in c, Op.13 'Pathetique': II. Adagio cantabile
Pno Son No.8 in c, Op.13 'Pathetique': III. Rondo (Allegro)
Pno Son No.14 in c#, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': I. Adagio sostenuto
Pno Son No.14 in c#, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': II. Allegretto
Pno Son No.14 in c#, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': III. Presto agitato-Adagio-Presto agitato
Pno Son No.32 in c, Op.111: I. Maestoso-Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Pno Son No.32 in c, Op.111: II. Arietta (con variazioni) Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Tracks:

Kinderszenen, Op.15: I. Von fremden Landern & Menschen
Kinderszenen, Op.15: II. Curiose Geschichte
Kinderszenen, Op.15: III. Hasche-Mann
Kinderszenen, Op.15: IV. Bittendes Kind
Kinderszenen, Op.15: V. Gluckes genug
Kinderszenen, Op.15: VI. Wichtige Begebenheit
Kinderszenen, Op.15: VII. Traumerei
Kinderszenen, Op.15: VIII. Am Camin
Kinderszenen, Op.15: IX. Ritter von Steckenpferd
Kinderszenen, Op.15: X. Fast zu ernst
Kinderszenen, Op.15: XI. Furchtenmachen
Kinderszenen, Op.15: XII. Kind in Einschlummern
Kinderszenen, Op.15: XIII. Der Dichter spricht
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Ausserst bewegt-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr aufgeregt-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr langsam-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr lebhaft-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr langsam-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Sehr rasch-
Kreisleriana, Op.16: Schnell und spielend
Pno con No.3: I. Allegretto
Pno con No.3: II. Adagio religioso
Pno con No.3: III. Allegro vivace

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Fast Fantasy

Manufacturer: Albany Records
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Release Date: 2004-04-27

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Fast Fantasy - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
Cello Variations - Fred Sherry
Orbicle of Jasp - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
Cello Variations II - Fred Sherry
Andante Espressivo - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
Cello Variations III - Fred Sherry
Grand Union - Fred Sherry

English Music from Henry VIII to Charles II

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English Music from Henry VIII to Charles II

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Customer Reviews:

Pomp and Glory.......2002-03-12

I adore this cd, it is one of my favorites. When you listen to this you can actually see a huge hall filled with richly dressed men and woman dancing. You can see their jewelry glisten ,see the hundreds of flickering candles, the tables laid with food, servants running to and fro, a band playing. This cd is a time portal!

Wonderful Pomp and Circumstance!.......2001-10-12

If you are looking for a CD to enovke a feeling of Queen Elizabeth I through Charles II (Restoration), this CD is for you.

You can envision the court, courtesans, feasts, ceremony and overall feeling. Listen to it with a goo dpot of Earl Grey tea and close your eyes....you will be whisked away to the majesty of the English Throne!

An invigorating survey two centuries of early English music........2000-03-31

Delightful. The consort is quite polished, and is ably supported by Timothy Roberts. The program is varied, and interspersed with some very engaging keyboard pieces. Recommended for those prepared to venture down the road less travelled.

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David Rakowski's growing catalog of Études for piano has inspired performances and recordings by leading pianists on both sides of the Atlantic. Volume One of Amy Dissanayake's Rakowski Études series (BRIDGE 9121) drew raves for both Rakowski's quirky and witty music and Dissanayake's bold virtuoso pianism.

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Fred Sherry , Charles Wuorinen , Garrick Ohlsson , Lois Martin , Benjamin Hudson , Carol Zeavin , and Group for Contemporary Music
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First Chairs: Cantos for Solo Instruments

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First Chairs: Cantos for Solo Instruments

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Canto XII: Scherzo - Judith LeClair
Canto XII: Sacre Ser - Judith LeClair
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Damir Hamidulin/ Zoltan Peter: Schumann/Tchaikovsky/Rachaninov "Piano Works"

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Damir Hamidulin
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Tracks:

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Felix Mendelssohn - Lied ohne Worte op.109
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Alexander Glazunov - Chant du menestrel op.71 Spanish Serenade op.20, no.2
Alexander Glazunov - Chant du menestrel op.71 Spanish Serenade op.20, no.2
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Cellist Damir Hamidulin is a virtuoso soloist and an excellent representative of the famous Russian cello school. He studied with Ittaki Halitov on the Kazan Conservatoire, graduating in 1981. During his studies, he was awarded many prizes, among them the second prize at the Russian String Competition in 1981, where he also won the Special Prize for the best performance of Shostakovich Sonata for cello. Later he undertook postgraduate studies. He studied with renounce cellist Fedor Luzano and became his Assistant at the Gnesin Institute in Moscow.

Mr. Hamidulin has played many times as a solo cellist with the Kazan Philharmonics and with other Symphonic and Chamer orchestras in Europe. Among the cello concertos he plays are: Haydn, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, Schumann, and Tschaikovsky.

While in Russia, he performed with many contemporary composers giving world premier of their works. This resulted in a number of radio broadcasts of his classical repertoire. After being invited to Slovenia as first solo cellist in the National Opera House in Ljubljana, he continued in his tradition, and some Slovenian composers have written pieces for him.

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Zoltan Peter (b. 1968) attended the Secondary School of Music in Subotica, and then studied under Professor Arbo Valdma at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He completed his training as a pianist at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. While studying there, he won a number of prizes: the Beethoven Prize of Subotica Music School, the Melannija Bugarinovic Fund Prize for the best accompanist of a solo singer, and several first prizes at young musicians' competitions in former Yugoslavia. In 1990, as young Musician of the Year, Mr. Peter was chosen as a soloist for the Vojvodina Youth Philharmonia and toured a Mozart piano concert under the baton of Igor Gjadrov. As a soloist, chamber musician, and piano accompanist for top musicians, he has appeared in all the musical centers of former Yugoslavia; he has also performed in Italy, Hungary, Germany and the former Soviet Union.

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Streetlights

1. Fast Fantasy - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
2. Cello Variations - Fred Sherry
3. Orbicle of Jasp - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
4. Cello Variations II - Fred Sherry
5. Andante Espressivo - Fred Sherry, Charles Wuorinen
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7. Grand Union - Fred Sherry