Schumann: Piano Works
Jonathan Biss (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
In 2006 EMI signed the 25-year old American Jonathan Biss to an exclusive two-year contract.
This is the partnership's first fruit and this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with per-...
Schumann: Piano Works
Jonathan Biss (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Instrumental Choice
-
Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
In 2006 EMI signed the 25-year old American Jonathan Biss to an exclusive two-year contract.
This is the partnership's first fruit and this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with per-...
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Contents and tracklist
Work length31:09
This work is only available as an album download.
- Jonathan Biss (piano)
- Recorded: 2006-09-25
- Recording Venue: 22nd - 25th April 2006; Air Studios, London
I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen
Track length12:56
This track is only available as an album download.
III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten - Etwas bewegter - Adagio
Track length10:08
This track is only available as an album download.
- Jonathan Biss (piano)
- Recorded: 2006-09-25
- Recording Venue: 22nd - 25th April 2006; Air Studios, London
II. Seht innig und nicht zu rasch - Intermezzo I (Sehr lebhaft) - Erstes Tempo - Intermezzo II (Etwas bewegter) - Langsammer (Erstes Tempo)
Track length8:48
- Jonathan Biss (piano)
- Recorded: 2006-09-25
- Recording Venue: 22nd - 25th April 2006; Air Studios, London
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2007Instrumental Choice
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Record ReviewDecember 2007Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2007Editor's Choice
2010
In 2006 EMI signed the 25-year old American Jonathan Biss to an exclusive two-year contract.
This is the partnership's first fruit and this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with per- formances of all three works that bear comparison with the finest. Schumann's youthful declaration of love in the Fantasie is echoed by Biss's obvious love for the ardent score. On the technical side, passages such as the treacherous close of the March are seen off with convincing relish.
Biss's musicality and maturity also make for an outstanding Kreisleriana. The spirit of Cortot hovers over this reading: try the fugal section of No 7 (Sehr rasch), thrillingly attacked by both pianists in a way that quite eludes Pollini and sounds blandly academic in Rubinstein's hands.
Biss, for whose grandmother, Raya Garbousova, Barber composed his Cello Concerto, and whose mother is the violinist Miriam Fried, is living proof that musical genes are inherited.
this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with performances of all three works that bear comparison with the finest. […] Biss's musicality and maturity also make for an outstanding Kreisleriana
