Schumann: Piano Works / Gerhard Oppitz

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Haenssler Classic
Release Date
January 6, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Robert Schumann
    • PERFORMER
      Gerhard Oppitz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2023
    • UPC
      881488220452
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HC22045
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Lebhaft

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    2. No. 2. Innig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    3. No. 3. Mit Humor

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    4. No. 4. Ungeduldig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    5. No. 5. Einfach

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    6. No. 6. Sehr rasch

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    7. No. 7. Nicht schnell

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    8. No. 8. Frisch

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    9. No. 9. Lebhaft

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    10. No. 10. Balladenmäßig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    11. No. 11. Einfach

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    12. No. 12. Mit Humor

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    13. No. 13. Wild und lustig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    14. No. 14. Zart und singend

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    15. No. 15. Frisch

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    16. No. 16. Mit gutem Humor

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    17. No. 17. Wie aus der Ferne

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    18. No. 18. Nicht schnell

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    19. Humoreske in B-Flat Major, Op. 20

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    20. I. Allegro

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    21. II. Scherzo: Molto commodo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    22. III. Quasi variazioni: Andantino de Clara Wieck

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    23. IV. Prestissimo possibile

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    24. Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    25. Blumenstück in D-Flat Major, Op. 19

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    26. I. Allegro

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    27. II. Romanze

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    28. III. Scherzino

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    29. IV. Intermezzo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz

    30. V. Finale

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gerhard Oppitz


Within the realm of Romantic piano music, where new discoveries are constantly just around the corner, the contribution of Robert Schumann has always played a major part. True, he cannot rival the aura of Chopin’s works, of which Ignaz Friedman asserted that not only had Chopin opened the piano with them, he had closed it again. (Schumann paid his own tribute in his reverent review of Chopin’s op. 2 of 1831, the Variations on Mozart’s “Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben”). Nor did Schumann embed in the history of piano playing such milestones of technical mastery and manual dexterity as Liszt who – inspired by Paganini’s concerts and enabled by the double-escapement action developed by Sébastien Erard in 1821 – had practically reinvented the instrument by the time he wrote his Etudes d’exécution transcendante in 1837. And neither the sprightliness of Felix Mendelssohn’s keyboard idiom nor Charles-Valentin Alkan’s exaltation of virtuosity are characteristic of Schumann’s piano music, even if he proves in his Abegg Variations op. 1 (1830) and his Toccata op. 7 (1832) that he brilliantly commanded both approaches to the instrument.