Schumann, Grieg, Dvorak & Reger - Humoresques | Haenssler Classic HC19036

Schumann, Grieg, Dvorak & Reger - Humoresques

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Label: Haenssler Classic

Cat No: HC19036

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 10th January 2020

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Sofja Gülbadamova's recording of a total of 14 Humoresques by the composers Edvard Grieg, Max Reger, Antonín Dvořák and Robert Schumann demonstrates the very wide range that music bearing this title could have in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. While the literary humoresque was a popular and entertaining, relatively short-lived “Biedermeier-style narrative form” (Appel), musical humoresques covered a whole range of forms – from the small-scale to the large-scale, multi-part format, from the amusing and lively through to the enigmatic and ambiguous. Be prepared for contrasts, exaggerations, the OTT and the seemingly incompatible, for pieces that can cause you to laugh or indeed to cry, and which plumb the depths of the abysmal, the desperate and the gloomy – music that speaks both directly and sometimes between the lines.

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