Avec Le Pensionnaire d'Endenich et Lutter avec le bleu du ciel, Jean-Philippe Guye présente deux textes de théâtre musical, autour de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Robert Schumann et de Claude Debussy. Chaque spectacle est composé de six lettres ou monologues imaginaires, qui s'intercalent entre des pièces de musique de chambre avec piano et si possible voix. Le choix des oeuvres, leur ordre, la succes…

Sous la forme d'un journal imaginaire, Mélisande Chauveau a pris le parti original de donner la parole à Robert Schumann, entremêlant subtilement dans son récit anecdotes, témoignages de contemporains et extraits de lettres. Elle met l'homme au coeur du sujet dans la réalité musicale, sociale et économique de son époque, nous offrant une relecture passionnante et passionnée de la vie du compositeu…

Andrea Ramsey Choral Series-Er Ist Gekommen is one of four songs presented to Robert Schumann by his wife Clara. Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (He came in storm and rain) ihm schlug beklommen mein Herzentgegen. (my anxious heart beat against his.) Wie konnt' ich ahnen daß seine Bahnen (how could I have known that his path) sich einen sollten meinen Wegen. (should unite itself withmine?) Thi…

Music Minus One Clarinet-Pieces by the great Romantic master Robert Schumann which offers less experienced clarinetists a slice of nineteenth-century musical perfection. Highly recommended. Performed by Jerome Bunke clarinet Accompaniment: Hidemitsu Hayashi piano

For all its charm Schumann's 'Children's Sonata' has nevertheless an intensity of romantic feeling that the guitar is peculiarly well able to express.Schumann's classic Kindersonate has been skilfully transcribed for solo Guitar by Julian Bream.

Suite à des volumes sur Franz Liszt et Frédéric Chopin, l'auteur présente maintenant une autre chronique sur la vie et le oeuvre de ce compositeur troisième du XIXe siècle. Une fois de plus, la publication de cette documentation extraordinaire a été entreprises par des années d'étude intensive de la société contemporaine, l'art et la littérature. Schumann circonstances personnelles, son caractère,…

Published within the â??Signatureâ?? Series a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars including informative introductions and performance notesâ??I always welcome excellent scholarly editions of standard works in the piano repertoire such as this fine edition of Schumannâ??s Papillons. A valuable introduction dis…

for four-part choir and orchestra-Whoever attempted to compose a Latin mass in the middle of the 19th century had to compete with great models and traditional composition techniques. Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemnis but even his earlier Mass in C major (performed by Schumann) are among the key works of a great mass tradition in the reception of High Romanticism. Not unlike Sc…

A Romantic Sketchbook For Piano explores the wealth of piano music from the Romantic period in five carefully graded albums. Mostly composed between 1830 and 1930 the pieces in these albums have been selected to introduce players to a wide range of music from works by some of the leading Romantic composers (such as Schumann Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky) to unfamiliar pieces by lesser-known figur…