Schumann Kinderszenen, by Alberto Sanna

Schumann Kinderszenen

by Alberto Sanna

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1.	Von fremden Ländern und Menschen 02:06	buy track
2.	Curiose Geschichte 02:37	buy track
3.	Hasche-Mann 01:04	buy track
4.	Bittendes Kind 01:28	buy track
5.	Glückes genug 02:50	buy track
6.	Wichtige Begebenheit 01:38	buy track
7.	Träumerei 03:53	buy track
8.	Am Camin 01:58	buy track
9.	Ritter vom Steckenpferd 01:07	buy track
10.	Fast zu ernst 01:54	buy track
11.	Fürchtenmachen 03:23	buy track
12.	Kind im Einschlummern 03:36	buy track
13.	Der Dichter spricht 03:32	buy track

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One of the most important pieces that we can rely on for an historical tempo reconstruction is the set of 13 miniatures that Robert Schumann has composed in 1838 and published under the name of "Kinderszenen". As the Henle Urtext edition provides to us all the existing MMs for Schumann's music (most of them are from the first edition, published during the composer's life), we face one of the biggest mysteries for musicians and musicologists today: why are these metronome numbers so fast? Was Schumann's ticking device broken as well as those of Beethoven, Moscheles, Czerny, Hummel, Chopin, Alkan, Clara Schumann, Otto von Boehme and you name it?
Since musicologists haven't been able to give to musicians a satisfying answer, we tend today to ignore these speed indications, as we do not know what to do with them. But how could it be possible that people played incredibly fast back in the 1800? What are we missing?
If you are new to this channel you will be surprised to see that the answer is so obvious: WBMP (Whole Beat Metronome Practice). This practice makes us to consider the note's value equal to two ticks of the Metronome, as the note is the unity (tactus in italian and schlag in german), and the ticks represent the subdivision of the unity itself. This is how we still teach in solfege to our kids at school: ONE and TWO and THREE and so on.

So why are the Kinderszenen so important to the case of WBMP? As you will see in this recording, we applied those MM with no compromise and what we found out is that most of these pieces are still played today at the speed of WBMP by our most renowned pianists and probably they are not even aware of it.

We will come back to this last point with more videos, but at the moment we just wish you an enjoyable listening, bye!

00:58 - Von fremden Ländern und Meuschen (q=108)
03:04 Curiose Keschichte (q=112)
05:41 Hasche-Mann (q=138)
06:45 Bittendes Kind (8=138)
08:15 Glückes genug (8=132)
11:06 Wichtige Begebenheit (q=138)
12:43 Traumerei (q=100)
16:37 Am Camin (q=138)
18:34 Ritter vom Steckenpferd (h.=80)
19:41 Fast zu ernst (q=69) - Full Pedal + Moderator (video footage of this piece appeared missing during editing...!)
21:40 Fürchtenmachen (q=96)
24:58 Kind im Einschlummern (8=92)
28:37 Der Dichter spricht (q=112)

More on the WBMP - Whole Beat Metronome practice: youtu.be/6EgMPh_l1BI

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released February 3, 2020

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Wim Winters (1972) began his musical studies in 1984. At age 13, Wim Winters was awarded First Prize in an international competition in The Netherlands and subsequently decided to pursue a career in music.

He studied at the Sweelinck conservatory in Amsterdam, with Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ) and Willem Brons (piano).

Wim is also involved in restoration projects of historic organs. ... more

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