Clara Schumann · Complete Piano Works · Jozef De Beenhouwer

Clara Schumann · Complete Piano Works · Jozef De Beenhouwer

Clara Schumann · Complete Piano Works · Jozef De Beenhouwer 
Classical | EAC | FLAC, Tracks LOG 662 MB | MP3 HQ, Tracks 342 MB
3 CD | Covers | rs.com | 2001

Jozef de Beenhouwerpf CPO © CP0999 758-2 (225 minutes: DOD) From Partridge PART9293-2 (1/93)

A rather heavy-handed championship of

Clara Schumann's uneven works for piano

In his warns appreciation for Clara Schumann's piano works, Gerd Nauhaus's essay claims that 'it would be very unjust.. to see her relatively small oeuvre as merely an echo or even as a lacklustre reflection of [Robert] Schumann's music.' That's easy enough to say. But after nearly four hours of only intermittendy pleasurable listening I would say that the only injustice in the kind of assessment Nauhaus deplores is that it fails to mention all the other influences on Clara.

In the first work on these three discs, the Sonata in G minor of 1841-42, her husband's A minor Concerto is looking benignly on, together with Schubert, Mendelssohn and Weber. Prior to that, much of Clara's salonish writing derives from Chopin; and later on there are signs of close encounters of the Brahmsian kind. Not that there is nothing to charm and fascinate here. There are rhapsodically dreamy pieces like the second of the Soirees musicales (Robert was so taken with the fifth of these that he used its theme to kick off his Davidskiindlertiinze) and the Quatre pieces caracteristiques, Op 5, are a delight. Like most of the music here, these were the product of a fabulously talented teenager. What heights she might have risen to, given more favourable life circumstances, we can only guess.

As Joan Chissell noted in January 1993, the recording quality is only fair. The piano is too forwardly balanced and too much pedal-thump has been captured. Even allowing for that, Jozef de Beenhouwer is not the subtlest of exponents. He copes well enough with the considerable demands of such tours de force as the Valses romantiques, but his fortissimo throughout the three discs grates on the ear, and he thuds his way through the Eel/ii Variations, obliterating any pleasure one might take in their affinities with Robert's Etudes symphoniqztes.

A useful library acquisition then, but it is not hard to imagine others making the case for Clara Schumann more eloquently. David Fanning. Gramophone. November 2001 Page 73



Clara Schumann (1819-1896)


CD 1
Sonata for Piano in G minor by Clara Wieck Schumann
Romance for Piano in B minor, Op. Posthumous by Clara Wieck Schumann
Impromptu for Piano in E major by Clara Wieck Schumann
Romance for Piano in A minor by Clara Wieck Schumann
Scherzo for Piano in D minor, Op. 10 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Scherzo for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 14 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Prelude for Piano in F minor by Clara Wieck Schumann
Soirées musicales, Op. 6 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Etude for Piano in A flat major by Clara Wieck Schumann
March for Piano in E flat major "Birthday March" by Clara Wieck Schumann
Preludes and Fugues (3) for Piano, Op. 16 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Variations for Piano on a theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 20 by Clara Wieck Schumann

CD 2
Romances (3) for Piano, Op. 11 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Romance Variée Op. 3 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Caprices en forme de valse, Op. 2 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Impromptu for Piano in G major, Op. 9 "Souvenir de Vienne" by Clara Wieck Schumann
Valses Romantiques for Piano, Op. 4 by Clara Wieck Schumann

CD 3
Variations de concert on a Cavatina from Bellini's "Pirata", Op. 8 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Polonaises (4) for Piano, Op. 1 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Pièces caractéristiques (4) for Piano, Op. 5 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Pièces fugitives (4) for Piano, Op. 15 by Clara Wieck Schumann
Praeludium und Fuge for Piano in F sharp minor by Clara Wieck Schuma
Fugues (3) on themes of JS Bach by Clara Wieck Schuman
Romances (3) for Piano, Op. 21 by Clara Wieck Schumann

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