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- When Clara (Nearly) Met Harriet
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Release Date: 2000-05-15
A Second Glance : A Parallel Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe & Clara Schumann
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| 1. Andante molto, Three Romances, op. 22 - Clara Schumann | ||
| 2. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 3. Song Without Words, Op. 8 - Fanny Hensel | ||
| 4. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 5. Allegretto, Three Romances, Op. 22 - Clara Schumann | ||
| 6. Leidenschaftlich schnell, Three Romances, Op. 22 - Clara Schumann | ||
| 7. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 8. Largo, Sonata in G minor, op. 65 - Frederic Chopin | ||
| 9. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 10. Zart mit Ausdruck, Fantasy pieces, Op. 73 - Robert Schumann | ||
| 11. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 12. Lebhaft leicht, Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 - Robert Schumann | ||
| 13. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 14. Rasch und mit Feuer, Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 - Robert Schumann | ||
| 15. Jeanie, with the Light Brown Hair - Stephen Foster | ||
| 16. Clara Schumann speaks | ||
| 17. Dreaming, Op. 15 - Amy Beach |
A Second Glance : A Parallel Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe & Clara Schumann, Music, Robert Schumann
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When Clara (Nearly) Met Harriet.......2000-12-15
Across the Atlantic, Clara Wieck Schumann was the best-known female concert pianist in the world. Unlike her contemporary Stowe, she lived a very public life. The wife of composer Robert Schumann, Clara had sublimated her own composing career in order to champion her mentally ill husband's, arranging to have his works performed at every opportunity.
In 1853 (or thereabouts), Stowe went on an abolitionist tour of Great Britain. Clara Schumann is supposed to have been in London at about the same time. The two ladies never met but Chamber Music Plus's Harry Clark decided to speculate on what they might have said to one another had they actually met. (In an earlier version of this Parallel Portrait, held at the Avery Theater of the Wadsworth Atheneum, this writer--an operatic baritone--performed an utterly forgettable bit of musical ephemera written to celebrate Stowe's trip: "Welcome to London, Harriet Beecher Stowe." Happily, that strophic ditty was dropped from the show and does not take up space on this CD!)
The present recording, featuring actress Jill Clayburgh, represents Clark's evolving thoughts about the format of this unusual genre. Clayburgh is Clara Schumann; she reads letters purportedly exchanged with Stowe. Between Clara's monologues, the Clark-Schuldmann Duo expertly play her Three Romances, op. 22, husband Robert's op. 73 Fantasiestuecke, the Largo from Chopin's op. 65 Cello Sonata, Clark's arrangement of Foster's "Jeanie, with the Light Brown Hair," and works by Fanny Hensel and Amy Beach.
The Clark-Schuldmann Duo play with verve and precision, and Clayburgh gratefully eschews faking a German accent in order to create believable portraits of Clara and her pen pal, Harriet.
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