SCHUMANN Overture: Manfred
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
SCHUMANN Symphony No 1, ‘Spring’
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
Piotr Anderszewski piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Eliot Gardiner explores Schumann at his most urgent, dramatic and tender.
Desperate, heartfelt and elegant, the Manfred Overture opens with an urgent impetus that only increases through the work, displaying the intense strife which lies ahead for its protagonist. Then hear a Piano Concerto as challenging for the player’s poetic imagination as it is for their virtuosity; Schumann’s exquisite piano writing and the delicately tender relationship between soloist and orchestra are like none heard in Piano Concertos before him.
From the dramatic first trumpet-call which awakens the frozen landscape, Schumann’s Symphony No 1 is a celebration of spring. Move through the season and the gruff folksong Scherzo until finally the season departs with a cheery farewell, a jubilant conclusion which dances into summer.
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