Robert Schumann ( 1810 -1856 ) '' Carnaval '' Op. 9

[@WayFinder42]

0:35 Preamble 3:24 Pierrot 6:27 Valse noble 10:09 Florestan 11:14 Coquette 12:44 Replique 13:40 Sphinxes 15:27 Papillons 16:40 (Lettres dasantes) 17:58 Chiarina =) 20:15 Chopin 22:48 Estrella 25:31 Pantalon et Colombine 26:44 Valse allemande 28:09 Paganini 30:05 Aveu 31:28 Promenade 33:41 Pause

[@aethersprite7]

Alan Payne 23:49 Reconnaissance

[@hiroyukitakenaka4375]

fabulous! this is what I have been looking for for a long time! thank you♪

[@calebhu6383]

The Russians seem to really love Schumann. He was Tchaikovsky's favorite composer as well (next to Mozart) and Tchaikovsky orchestrated some of the Symphonic Etudes.

[@PianistKK]

It's so fantastic!

[@mozartband1]

these old russian's seemed to really love this weird, young boy...;-) chapeau, maestro doni & his wonderful ensemble!

[@mcfrdmn]

Lovely musical performance!

[@vonMohl]

it sounds really great, like the way it should.

[@menchsito32]

Superb 🎉

[@garfreed]

26:42 sounds just like Joplin!!

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

You can read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnaval_(ballet) Quote: Carnaval (Russian: Карнавал) is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March (old style, 20 February) 1910. [...] The ballet became world-famous due to its production by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Theater des Westens, Berlin, 20 May 1910), with new sets and costumes by Bakst, with Lydia Lopokova as Columbine and Vaslav Nijinsky as Harlequin. [...]

[@ckb5943]

Excellent arrangements! Carnaval is much like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (one musical idea after another without much development, with fairly unpolished piano writing), and both profit greatly from orchestration. Ravel orchestrated a few of the Carnaval pieces, too--interesting to compare with this version.

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

Unpolished piano writing??? Are you insane???

[@ckb5943]

@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 Schumann's early works often look like ideas he dashed off and never went back to (or didn't know how to) improve. Remember, Schumann came to being a musician and composing relatively late. After first toying with being a novelist and then attending law school, he was 18 when he decided to become a virtuoso pianist and began seriously studying with Friedrich Wieck. By contrast, Chopin was a child prodigy who was giving public concerts at the age of 7. ALL of Chopin's published works show beautiful workmanship and polish, while Schumann's first opuses are pretty rough around the edges. Schumann was 24 when he published his often-clumsy Op.9 Carnaval; by that time his exact contemporary Chopin had published both piano concertos, his Op. 10 etudes, the first of his scherzi and ballades, plus numerous mazukas and other works. Chopin was just 17 when he published his variations on "La ci darem la mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni for piano and orchestra, the piece that moved Schumann to declare "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!" Carnaval works due to its wealth of musical ideas, most of which are not developed beyond simply stating them and then moving to the next, and it displays Schumann's limitations as a composer at that point.

[@michael18276]

why are the movements arranged by different people?

[@中神洋二]

At least including arranged by A.Glazunov as famous Russian composer.

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

Wikipedia has an article about this, called "Carnaval(ballet)".

[@michael18276]

@@dibaldgyfm9933 but why?

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

@@michael18276 :: I think they were friends and wanted to share the workload; I think Rimsky was the master and knew everything about orchestration, and perhaps they consulted each other or got advice from Rimsky.

[@rafatheviolinistnopc7984]

0:35 Preamble 3:24 Pierrot 6:27 Valse noble 10:09 Florestan 11:14 Coquette 12:44 Replique 13:40 Sphinxes 15:27 Papillons 16:40 (Lettres dasantes) 17:58 Chiarina =) 20:15 Chopin 22:48 Estrella 25:31 Pantalon et Colombine 26:44 Valse allemande 28:09 Paganini 30:05 Aveu 31:28 Promenade 33:41 Pause