Nobody will blame me for the comical indiscretion: when Outhere bought Analekta, they asked themselves: “The National Arts Centre, what is it? If they sat down with a beer on a sofa to listen to the 3e of Schumann, they had to butter their faces with foam! Because it’s been a long time since we’ve been waiting for one like it, energetic, with a wonderful breath, with glorious brass (what a joy after the flop of the recent Schumann integral re-orchestrated by Mahler by Marin Alsop at Naxos). The album continues the Brahms + Robert and Clara Schumann concept: Clara’s melodies by a powerful Adrianne Pieczonka are mixed too loudly, the pieces recorded by Stewart Goodyear are in drier acoustics, the sonata which follows by Gabriela Montero is fortunately coherent. THE Trio de Clara makes a very good figure among the dolphins of the Mutter Cie (Sony) version. There Third by Brahms suffers, alas!, from acoustic dryness, but his implacable spirit is accurate. Beautiful heterogeneous and large album Rhenish.
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