| Love Fugue: Robert Schumann | ||||
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| Studio album by Uri Caine Ensemble & La Gaia Scienza | ||||
| Released | 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Classical music, Jazz | |||
| Length | 65:15 | |||
| Label | Winter & Winter 910 049-2 | |||
| Producer | Stefan Winter | |||
| Uri Caine chronology | ||||
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Love Fugue: Robert Schumann is an album by pianist Uri Caine featuring selections from Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe (Op. 48) and Piano Quintet in E-flat major (Op. 44) recorded in 2000 and released on the Winter & Winter label. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Tom Hull | C+ [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
In his review for Allmusic, Alex Henderson said "Caine takes more than his share of liberties with Schumann's compositions, bringing both jazz and Latin elements to them and allowing for improvisation some of the time ... Classical purists are bound to denounce this CD as musical blasphemy, but for those with more eclectic tastes, Love Fugue is a joy to listen to". [2]
All compositions by Robert Schumann
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Album for the Young, Op. 68, was composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 for his three daughters. The album consists of a collection of 43 short works. Unlike the Kinderszenen, they are suitable to be played by children or beginners. The second part, starting at Nr. 19, is marked Für Erwachsenere and contains more demanding pieces.
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Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott.
"Freundliche Vision" is both a German poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum and a Lied by Richard Strauss, his Op. 48/1. The opening line is Nicht im Schlafe hab ich das geträumt. It is the first of a set of five songs by Strauss composed in 1900 and published in Berlin in 1901 by Adolph Fürstner. The works were scored for voice and piano, and arranged for voice and orchestra in 1918 by the composer.
Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, is a collection of six Lieder by Richard Strauss. He composed them, setting poems by Clemens Brentano, in 1918 for soprano and piano, and orchestrated one in 1933 and five in 1940. The piano version was first published by Adolph Fürstner in Berlin in 1919. They are also known as Brentano Lieder.
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