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Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, Fantasie, Faschingsschwank aus Wien - Richter

Praga Digitals Reminiscences PRD/DSD 350 070

Mono Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, Fantasie, Faschingsschwank aus Wien

Sviatoslav Richter

Richter has been, thanks to his Germanic roots, the utmost interpreter of the tormented and introverted spirit of Schumann. Until 1971 he adopted the short version of the Symphonischen Etuden and postumen Variationen (1956) translating the wandering and sharp changes in tones of Fantasise as Faschingsschwank aus Wien, panting, heroic tragic rides more than childish plays or pieces mignonnes.

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