Tag: Schumann
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PROGRAM NOTES: WINTERLUDE – SUPER SUNDAY WITH JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS & ALEXANDER MELNIKOV
Robert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 The late 1840s saw Schumann take up “house music” in a big way. This does not mean that he began to DJ at raves, playing dance music with repetitive drum tracks and synthesized basslines. Rather, he had a productive period composing music specifically designed for the home…
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PROGRAM NOTES: MAXIMILIAN HORNUNG & BENJAMIN ENGELI
Robert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 Long before Martha Stewart made middle-class home furnishings a “thing,” the Biedermeier period (1815-1848) ushered in a bourgeois age of cozy home interiors that celebrated domestic family life and gave music a prominent place within it. Biedermeier Europe enjoyed the blessings of peace after the defeat of…