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Variations on Nostalgia – Boris Berman Plays Brahms and Silvestrov
In recent months, the 85-year-old Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov has received the world's attention more than ever due to the ongoing war. Silvestrov's piano music covers more than half a century, and it would be hard to find a better proponent for it than the composer's longtime friend Boris Berman, whose coming album offers a panorama of the composer's evolution. Berman has also just released a new Brahms album – and feels an affinity between the two composers. Read more >>

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Topic: Schumann Carnaval (Read 1750 times)

Chiarina

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Schumann Carnaval

on: June 08, 2004, 03:48:56 PM

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?

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bernhard

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Re: Schumann Carnaval

Reply #1 on: June 08, 2004, 10:59:13 PM

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.

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Chiarina

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Re: Schumann Carnaval

Reply #2 on: June 09, 2004, 10:28:45 PM

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

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bernhard

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Re: Schumann Carnaval

Reply #3 on: June 10, 2004, 01:25:55 AM

You are welcome.

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