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Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set)

Schumann: The Complete Piano Works (Box Set)
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Disc 1:

  1. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.1, Lebhaft
  2. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.2, Innig
  3. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.3, Mit Humor
  4. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.4, Ungeduldig
  5. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.5, Einfach
  6. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.6, Sehr rasch
  7. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.7, Nicht schnell
  8. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.8, Frisch
  9. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.9, Lebhaft
  10. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.10, Balladenmäßig. Sehr rasch
  11. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.11, Einfach
  12. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.12, Mit Humor
  13. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.13, Wild und lustig
  14. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.14, Zart und singend
  15. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.15, Frisch
  16. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.16, Mit guten Humor
  17. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.17, Wie aus der Ferne
  18. Davidsbündlertänze (18) for piano, Op. 6: No.18, Nicht schnell
  19. Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for piano, Op. 111: No.1 in C minor
  20. Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for piano, Op. 111: No.2 in A-flat major
  21. Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for piano, Op. 111: No.3 in C minor
  22. Gesänge der Frühe (5), for piano, Op. 133: No.1, Im ruhigen Tempo
  23. Gesänge der Frühe (5), for piano, Op. 133: No.2, Belebt, nicht zu rasch
  24. Gesänge der Frühe (5), for piano, Op. 133: No.3, Lebhaft
  25. Gesänge der Frühe (5), for piano, Op. 133: No.4, Bewegt
  26. Gesänge der Frühe (5), for piano, Op. 133: No.5, Im Ansange ruhiges, im verlauf bewegtes tempo
  27. Klavierstücke (4) for piano, Op. 32: No.1, Scherzo
  28. Klavierstücke (4) for piano, Op. 32: No.2, Gigue
  29. Klavierstücke (4) for piano, Op. 32: No.3, Romanze
  30. Klavierstücke (4) for piano, Op. 32: No.4, Fughette

Disc 2:

  1. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Préambule
  2. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Pierrot
  3. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Arlequin
  4. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Valse noble
  5. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Eusebius
  6. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Florestan
  7. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Coquette
  8. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Replique
  9. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Papillons
  10. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: A.S.C.H.S.C.H.A. Letters dansantes
  11. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Chiarina
  12. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Chopin
  13. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Estrelle
  14. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Reconnaissance
  15. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Pantalon et Colombine
  16. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Valse allemande
  17. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Paganini
  18. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Aven
  19. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Promenade
  20. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Pause
  21. Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Marsche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins
  22. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Impromptu
  23. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Leides Ahnung
  24. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Scherzino
  25. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Walzer
  26. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Fantasietanz
  27. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Wiegenliedchen
  28. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Ländler
  29. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Lied ohne End
  30. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Impromptu
  31. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Walzer
  32. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Romanze
  33. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Burla
  34. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Larghetto
  35. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Vision
  36. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Walzer
  37. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Schlummerlied
  38. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Else
  39. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Botschaft
  40. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Fantasiestück
  41. Albumblätter (Album Leaves) for piano, Op. 124: Canon
  42. Canon on F.H. Himmel's 'An Alexis send' ich dich' for piano in A flat major, WoO 4
  43. Arabeske for piano in C major, Op. 18

Disc 3:

  1. Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor ('Grosse Sonate'), Op. 11
  2. Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor ('Grosse Sonate'), Op. 11
  3. Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor ('Grosse Sonate'), Op. 11
  4. Impromptus (10) on a Theme by Clara Wieck, for piano in D major, Op. 5
  5. Intermezzi (6) for piano (Pièces phantastiques), Op. 4: Intermezzo for piano in A major
  6. Intermezzi (6) for piano (Pièces phantastiques), Op. 4: Intermezzo for piano in E minor

Disc 4:

  1. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.1, Von fredem Ländern und Manschen
  2. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.2, Kuriose Geschichte
  3. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.3, Hasche - Mann
  4. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.4, Bittendes Kind
  5. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.5, Glückes genug
  6. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.6, Wichtige Begebenheit
  7. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.7, Träumerei
  8. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.8, Am Kamin
  9. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd
  10. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.10, Fast zu ernst
  11. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.11, Fürchtenmachen
  12. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.12, Kind im Einschlummern
  13. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: No.13, Der Dichter spricht
  14. Romances (3) for piano, Op. 28: No. 1, Sehr markiert
  15. Romances (3) for piano, Op. 28: No. 2, Einfach
  16. Romances (3) for piano, Op. 28: No. 3, Sehr markiert
  17. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 1, Micht schnell, leise vorzutragen
  18. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 2, Mäßig
  19. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 3, Ziemlich bewegt
  20. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 4, Lebhaft
  21. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 5, Ziemlich langsam, empfindungsvoll vorzutragen
  22. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 6, Sehr schnell
  23. Pieces in Fugue Form (7), for piano (Klavierstücke in Fughettenform), Op. 126: No. 7, Langsam, ausdruksvoll
  24. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 1, Allegro molto in A flat major
  25. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 2, Non troppo lento in G minor
  26. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 3, Vivace in G minor
  27. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 4, Maestoso in C minor
  28. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 5, ... in B minor
  29. Concert Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini, for piano, Op. 10: No. 6, Sostenuto, Allegro. Sosenuto in E minor

Disc 5:

  1. Fantasie (Obolen auf Beethovens Monument) for piano in C major, Op. 17: Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
  2. Fantasie (Obolen auf Beethovens Monument) for piano in C major, Op. 17: Massig, Durchaus energisch
  3. Fantasie (Obolen auf Beethovens Monument) for piano in C major, Op. 17: Langsam getragen, Durchwegleise zu halten
  4. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Des Abends
  5. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Aufschwung
  6. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Warum?
  7. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Grillen
  8. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: In Der Nacht
  9. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Fabel
  10. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Traumes Wirren
  11. Fantasiestücke (8 Fantasy Pieces), for piano, Op. 12: Ende Vom Lied
  12. Work(s): Fantasy Piece, Op.post.
  13. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in A minor, Agitato
  14. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in E major, Allegretto
  15. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in C major, Andante
  16. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in B flat major, Allegro
  17. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in E flat major, Lento... Allegro assai
  18. Etudes (6) after Caprices of Paganini for piano, Op. 3: Etude in G minor, Allegro molto

Disc 6:

  1. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Theme: Andante
  2. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Variation 1: Un poco piu vivo
  3. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Variation 2: Marcato il canto
  4. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 1: Vivace
  5. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 2
  6. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 3
  7. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 4: Agitato
  8. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 5: Allegro molto
  9. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Variation 3
  10. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Etude 6: Presto possibile
  11. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Variation 4
  12. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Variation 5: Con espressionne
  13. Symphonic Etudes ('Etudes in the form of variations') for piano (2 versions), Op. 13: Finale: Allegro brillante
  14. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  15. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  16. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  17. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  18. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  19. Symphonic Etudes in Variation Form (5), for piano (variants & corrections of Op. 13), WoO 6
  20. Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) for piano, Op. 23: Mehr langsam, oft zuruckhaltend
  21. Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) for piano, Op. 23: Markirt und lebhaft
  22. Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) for piano, Op. 23: Mit grosser Lebhaftigkeit
  23. Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) for piano, Op. 23: Einfach
  24. Sketches (4) for pedal piano, Op. 58: Esquisse in C minor, Nicht schnell und sehr markirt
  25. Sketches (4) for pedal piano, Op. 58: Esquisse in C major, Nicht schnell und seht markirt
  26. Sketches (4) for pedal piano, Op. 58: Esquisse in F minor, Lebhaft
  27. Sketches (4) for pedal piano, Op. 58: Esquisse in D flat major, Allegretto
  28. Blumenstück for piano in D flat major, Op. 19

Disc 7:

  1. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Ausserst bewegt
  2. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr innig
  3. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr aufgeregt
  4. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr langsam
  5. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr lebhaft
  6. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr langsam
  7. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Sehr rasch
  8. Kreisleriana, 8 fantasies for piano, Op. 16: Schnell und spielend
  9. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  10. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  11. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  12. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  13. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  14. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  15. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  16. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  17. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  18. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  19. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1
  20. Sonata for piano in G major (sonatas for the young), Op. 118/1

Disc 8:

  1. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Melodie
  2. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Soldatenmarsch
  3. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Trällerliedchen
  4. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Ein Choral
  5. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Stückchen
  6. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Armes Waisenkind
  7. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Jägerliedchen
  8. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Wilder Reiter
  9. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Volksliedechen
  10. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Frölicher Landmann
  11. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Sizilianisch
  12. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Knecht Ruprecht
  13. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Mai, lieber Mai
  14. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Kleine Studie
  15. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Frühlingsgesang
  16. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Erster Verlust
  17. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Kleiner Morgenwanderer
  18. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 1: Schnitterliedchen
  19. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Kleine Romanze
  20. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Ländliches Lied
  21. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: ...(Lento espressivo)
  22. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Rundgesang
  23. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Reiterstück
  24. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Ernteliedchen
  25. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Nachklänge aus dem Theater
  26. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: ...(Andante con moto)
  27. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Kanonisches Liedchen
  28. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Erinnerung
  29. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Fremder Mann
  30. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: ...(Molto lento)
  31. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Kriegslied
  32. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Sheherazade
  33. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: "Wienlesezeit - Fröhliche Zeit!"
  34. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Thema
  35. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Mignon
  36. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Lied italienischer Marinari
  37. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Matrosenlied
  38. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Winterzeit 1
  39. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Winterzeit 2
  40. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Kleine Fuge
  41. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Nordisches Lied
  42. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Figurierter Choral
  43. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: Act 2: Silversterlied

Disc 9:

  1. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Entritt, Nicht zu schnell
  2. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Jager auf der Lauer, Hochst lebhaft
  3. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Einsame Blumen, Einfach
  4. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Verrufene Stelle
  5. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Freundliche Landschaft
  6. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Herberge, Massig
  7. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Vogel als Prophet, Langsam, sehr zart
  8. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Jagdlied, Rasch, kraftig
  9. Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), for piano, Op. 82: Abschied, Nicht schnell
  10. Work(s): Geistervariationen über den letzen Gedanken
  11. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Allegro
  12. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Scherzo: Molto comodo
  13. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Quasi variazioni - Andantino de Clara Wieck
  14. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Var. I
  15. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Var. II: In tempo
  16. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Var. III: Passionato
  17. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Var. IV
  18. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor ('Concerto Without Orchestra'), Op. 14: Prestissimo possible
  19. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: Hasche Mann
  20. Work(s): Mit Gott

Disc 10:

  1. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Einfach
  2. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Sehr rasch und leicht
  3. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Hastig
  4. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Einfach und zart
  5. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Innig
  6. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Sehr lebhaft. Stretta
  7. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Mit einigem Pomp
  8. Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op. 20: Zum Beschluss
  9. Faschingsschwank aus Wien ('Phantasiebilder'), for piano, Op. 26: Allegro, Sehr lebhaft
  10. Faschingsschwank aus Wien ('Phantasiebilder'), for piano, Op. 26: Romanze, Ziemlich langsam
  11. Faschingsschwank aus Wien ('Phantasiebilder'), for piano, Op. 26: Scherzino
  12. Faschingsschwank aus Wien ('Phantasiebilder'), for piano, Op. 26: Intermezzo, Mit grosster Energie
  13. Faschingsschwank aus Wien ('Phantasiebilder'), for piano, Op. 26: Finale, Hochst lebhaft
  14. Toccata for piano in C major, Op. 7
  15. Work(s): Für ganz Kleine
  16. Work(s): Puppenschlafliedchen
  17. Work(s): Wilder Reiter
  18. Work(s): Ein Triklied von C.M. von Weber
  19. Work(s): Auf der Gondel
  20. Work(s): Nr. 21
  21. Work(s): Nr. 26
  22. Work(s): Klavierstück in Es-Dur
  23. Work(s): Gukkuk im Versteck

Disc 11:

  1. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in A major, Op.21/1
  2. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in D major, Op.21/2
  3. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in D major, Op.21/3
  4. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in D major, Op.21/4
  5. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in D major, Op.21/5
  6. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in A major, Op.21/6
  7. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in E major, Op.21/7
  8. Noveletten (8), for piano, Op. 21: Novelletten for Piano in F-sharp minor, Op.21/8
  9. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel, Op.56/1
  10. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel, Op.56/2
  11. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel, Op.56/3
  12. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel, Op.56/4
  13. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel in B minor, Op. 56/5
  14. Etudes (6) in Canon Form for pedal piano, Op. 56: Etude for Pedalflügel, Op.56/6

Disc 12:

  1. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 1, Stücklein
  2. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 2, Stücklein
  3. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 3, Stücklein
  4. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 4, Albumblatt
  5. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 5, Albumblatt
  6. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 6, Albumblatt
  7. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 7, Albumblatt
  8. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 8, Albumblatt
  9. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 9, Novellette
  10. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 10, Präludium
  11. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 11, Marsch
  12. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 12, Abendmusik
  13. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 13, Scherzo
  14. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 14, Geschwindmarsch, sehr markiert
  15. Fugues (4) for piano, Op. 72: No. 1 in D minor, Nicht schnell
  16. Fugues (4) for piano, Op. 72: No. 2 in D minor, Sehr lebhaft
  17. Fugues (4) for piano, Op. 72: No. 3 in F minor, Nicht schnell und sehr ausdrucksvoll
  18. Fugues (4) for piano, Op. 72: No. 4 in F major, In mässigem Tempo
  19. Marches (4) for piano, Op. 76: No. 1 in E flat major, mit grösster Energie
  20. Marches (4) for piano, Op. 76: No. 2 in G minor, Sehr kräftig
  21. Marches (4) for piano, Op. 76: No. 3 in B major, Sehr mässig
  22. Marches (4) for piano, Op. 76: No. 4 in E flat major, Mit Kraft und Feuer
  23. Work(s): Unidentified Scherzo in F
  24. Allegro for piano in B minor, Op. 8

Disc 13:

  1. Variations on the name 'Abegg,' for piano in F major, Op. 1
  2. Papillons (Butterflies) for piano, Op. 2
  3. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: So rasch wie moglich
  4. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: Andantino
  5. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: Scherzo, Sehr rasch und markirt
  6. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: Rondo, Presto
  7. Presto Appassionato for piano in G minor (rejected finale for Op. 22), WoO 5/2
  8. Impromptus (10) on a Theme by Clara Wieck, for piano in D major, Op. 5

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #330747 in Music
  • Released on: 2001-03-06
  • Number of discs: 13
  • Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Mystery meat5
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.

Mystery Solved5
First off, thanks to Wayne A. 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). Wayne'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 Wayne 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, András 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 Wayne 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!

Schumann: the personification of the Romantic ages!5

For some, Robert Schumann was the genuine personification of the XIX Century. If we analyze his entire life, surely we would be unable to find other composer more enrooted conscious or unconsciously with basic premises of this artistic movement. No other composer in that Century could shape with major vigor such level of febrile poetry, bowing phlegm, imaginative restless, fiery melodic fantasy and unequaled introspection those well known facets of his intimacy like him.

Since his stormy love affair and marriage with Clara Wieck, his terrible personal disgrace when he maimed his finger pursuing major virtuosity, until his progressive metal illness and final breakdown. But on the other hand, he anticipated by far the initial seed of the Symphonic poem, through his countless and dissected works of marked self biographical landmark or those lovable pieces dedicated to his daughter, moreover he influenced in straight line to Claude Debussy because somehow he depicted the first signals of a unthinkable musical Impressionism, but take a look around his Third Symphony for instance, Carnival for piano and his unforgettable and majestic lieder, as human being he remarked the grandness of his contemporary Chopin and torched the path for other late composers.

There have been relatively few pianist really worried for diffusing his entire work for piano with such level of vehemence and rapture.

And Demus, indeed, has been one of of them. His lavish musicality, articulated fingering and golden phrasing deserves him a very special place among the great ones at the moment to make a selected list among the most remarkable interpreters of Schumann's bequeath for the piano.