🔼 This is a Romance. For Robert Schumann says so. SCHUMANN: Klavierstücke, Op.32 00:00 - 3. Romance in D minor Grigory Sokolov, piano Source: Audience Recording ------------- classical-pian... Sokolov's pages: classical-pian...
I had to smile about your comment... but of course, this is a characterful Romance, thinking of the dedicatee Amalie Rieffel, who, according to rumours, couldn't take her eyes off Robert :). Clara wrote: "she is always quite exalted [...] in a terribly excited mood" .... "Her character is as eccentric as her play. There is a restlessness in her playing that makes one fearful and anxious. She has quite considerable skill, studies diligently, you can hear it, she also has expression when a quiet moment comes over her, which is admittedly rare, but she rushes everything, she flies over the keys in such a way that not one note is like the other, and the fingers have acquired a strange unevenness of touch. I have told her all this, but I believe she can never be cured - just as her inside is unprecedentedly restless, so are her fingers".
Sokolov really has about 15 different kinds of staccato he can just pull out whenever he wants huh? Somehow that doesn’t even end up being the most impressive part of the performance either. Thanks for sharing :)
Half Sokolov's Schumann I don't like, the other half I just love. It is a strange feeling to be ambivalent, because usually I love nearly everything he does
@@christian-johansson I love his Chopin. I think of him like a "maniérist" painter, a refined 8y old wizzard, truthful, eloquent like an actor on stage with a rewritten text. And Chopin is also so cerebral sometimes.
