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Fantasie, Op. 17, Kreisleriana, Op. 16, Kinderszenen, Op. 15

Marc Ponthus

Fantasie, Op. 17, Kreisleriana, Op. 16, Kinderszenen, Op. 15

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404951428
Catnr: BRIDG 9514
Release date: 04 October 2019
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404951428
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9514
Release date
04 October 2019
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About the album

Pianist Marc Ponthus's new recording for Bridge Records consists of three of Robert Schumann's key masterpieces: Kinderszenen, op. 15, Kreisleriana, op. 16, and Fantasie in C, op. 17. Ponthus's last recording for Bridge was the “Complete Music for Piano” (BRIDGE 9456A/B) of the late Pierre Boulez. Ponthus's Boulez recording received glowing reviews, and was Gramophone magazine's “Editor's Choice”.
Die neue Aufnahme des Pianisten Marc Ponthus für Bridge Records besteht aus drei Schlüsselwerken von Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15, Kreisleriana, op. 16 und Fantasie in C, op. 17. Ponthus' letzte Aufnahme für Bridge war die "Complete Music for Piano" (BRIDGE 9456A/B) des verstorbenen Pierre Boulez. Ponthus' Boulez-Aufnahme erhielt glänzende Kritiken und war die "Editor's Choice" des Magazins Gramophone.

Artist(s)

Marc Ponthus (piano)

Marc Ponthus pioneered the monographic solo piano recital of leading avant-garde composers of the 50s and 60s, devoting entire programs to composers including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. He frequently performs landmark works of the past, juxtaposing them with the great works of our time. At the Moscow conservatory, he paired Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata with Pierre Boulez’s Second Sonata. Other Ponthus recital pairings include Bach’s Goldberg Variations with Xenakis’s Herma, and Schumann’s Kreisleriana with Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X. Marc Ponthus has recorded the complete piano music of Xenakis (Neuma 1014) and Pierre Boulez The Complete Music for Solo Piano (Bridge 9456A/B). Mr. Ponthus is a genuine polymath, and has conducted, staged and directed numerous contemporary chamber works, has written and...
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Marc Ponthus pioneered the monographic solo piano recital of leading avant-garde composers of the 50s and 60s, devoting entire programs to composers including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. He frequently performs landmark works of the past, juxtaposing them with the great works of our time. At the Moscow conservatory, he paired Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata with Pierre Boulez’s Second Sonata. Other Ponthus recital pairings include Bach’s Goldberg Variations with Xenakis’s Herma, and Schumann’s Kreisleriana with Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X.
Marc Ponthus has recorded the complete piano music of Xenakis (Neuma 1014) and Pierre Boulez The Complete Music for Solo Piano (Bridge 9456A/B). Mr. Ponthus is a genuine polymath, and has conducted, staged and directed numerous contemporary chamber works, has written and directed short films which explore alternative concepts of narrative, and composes under the “nom de plume” Oữτις. Mr. Ponthus edited and wrote the preface for a book on the music of Elliott Carter (Pendragon Press), and has written for The Independent in London. Marc Ponthus is a recipient of the Tanne Foundation's Award for achievement in the arts, and is the Director/Founder of the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance in New York City.

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Composer(s)

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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01.
Fantasy C-dur Op. 17: I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich
12:11
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
02.
Fantasy C-dur Op. 17: II. Maßig. Durchaus energisch; III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten.
15:28
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
03.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: I. Außerst bewegt
01:39
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
04.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch; Intermezzo I - Erstes Tempo - Intermezzo II - Erstes Tempo
07:21
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
05.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: III. Sehr aufgeregt
03:48
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
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Kreisleriana, Op. 16: IV. Sehr langsam
03:09
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
07.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: V. Sehr lebhaft
02:57
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
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Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VI. Sehr langsam
03:28
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
09.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VII. Sehr rasch
02:28
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
10.
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VIII. Schnell und spielend
02:37
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
11.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: I. Von fremden Landern und Meschen
01:32
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
12.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: II. Curiose Geschichte
00:46
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
13.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: III. Hasche-Mann
00:21
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
14.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IV. Bittendes Kind
01:01
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
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Kinderszenen, Op. 15: V. Gluckes genug
00:41
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
16.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VI. Wichtige Bebebenheit
00:39
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
17.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Traumerei
01:59
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
18.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VIII. Am Camin
00:43
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
19.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IX. Ritter vom Steckenpferd
00:30
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
20.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: X. Fast zu ernst
01:36
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
21.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XI. Furchtenmachen
01:34
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
22.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XII. Kind im Einschlummern
01:58
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
23.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XIII. Der Dichter spricht
02:29
(Robert Schumann) Marc Ponthus
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