Schumann Carnaval

[Chiarina]

I am playing Carnaval by Schumann now quite for a while. The whole piece for me is questions,questions and questions. This must be one of most misterious piece in whole piano literature.Apart from enormous technical dificculty comes problem-how to make it as a unity for a listener, and how to get right proportions on it.How to find balance between excentric,ironic side of it and this extreamly inner,fragile,full of personal care expression.Sometimes it feels-I know exactly how to play it,and then again comes times,when I am compleately lost.
Do you have some ideas? And also-how to learn Paganini?

[bernhard]

To start with, have a look here where Carnaval has been previously discussed:


https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1019507887

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1010978236

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1026686035

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Chiarina]

Thanks a lot for very usefull information! Great help!
Ch.

[bernhard]

You are welcome.