SCHUMANN

 

CD1

Davidsbündlertanzer, Op.6

 

CD2

Fantasie, Op.7

 

Mitsuko Uchida

 

 

More than 15 years since her acclaimed album of Carnaval and Kreisleriana [catalogue number 4758260], Mitsuko Uchida marks the Schumann bicentenary 2010 with her first recordings of two of his best-loved works for solo piano - Davidsbündlertänze and Fantasie.

With this new album, recorded at the Maltings at Snape, Dame Mitsuko shares the wealth of her experience as a Schumann interpreter - bringing to these enigmatic, questing pieces her celebrated musicality and depth of feeling.

Written after Schumann was again in touch with his beloved, Clara – whose father was determined she should never marry him – the Davidsbündlertänze are at once an outpouring of Schumann’s feelings for her and a struggle between the two sides of the composer’s own musical nature. Fantasie is a deeply introspective soliloquy, beautifully reflected through the emotional complexity of Mitsuko Uchida's pianism

 

Decca 2cds 4782280