NUNO PINTO - CLARINETE
ELSA SILVA - PIANO
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Schumann 1849
This entire CD is dedicated to works composed by Robert Schumann (Zwickau 1810 – Endenich 1856) in the year 1849.
A true paradigm of the spirit of Romanticism, the music of this composer reflects the style, tendencies and contradictions of the epoch as well as his own personal life-course.
A promising pianist, Schumann witnessed his career end prematurely, in 1832, due to a lesion in one finger. It was at that time that he dedicated himself to musical criticism. Two years later, he founded the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. In his writings, he created the Davidsbündler (League of David), which he considered an adversary to the “Philistines” of art and populated his literary and musical works with characters such as Florestan (the impetuous), Eusebius (the contemplative) and Raro (the wise and mature master).
In 1839 he began composing works for piano. That creative experience later broadened to include chamber music as well as orchestral and vocal formations. His song cycles are one of the greatest elements of his compositional legacy.
In 1840, his anxiously awaited marriage to Clara Wieck finally took place. There was an enormous production of vocal music during the period that followed, which includes the famous song cycles, Frauenliebe und Leben, Opus 42 and Dichterliebe, Opus 48.
The year 1849 was, perhaps, Robert Schumann’s most creative: he composed over 30 new works. As he himself acknowledged in a letter to his friend, Ferdinand Hiller, the German composer and conductor, “(…) storms make Man focus on himself, and I have found consolation for the terrible external events in my work, (…).” In this period the composer explores a new universe of sound: the duo of instrument and piano, especially, wind instruments, but in some cases allowing for the possibility of performance of this part by stringed instruments.
From the works composed by Schumann in 1849, those contained on this CD include: Drei Romanzen Op. 94 written from December 7th through 12th, for oboe (violin, clarinet or violoncello) and piano; Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102, originally written for violoncello and piano during the month of April; the Adagio und Allegro Op. 70, initially entitled Romanze und Allegro, and composed around the 14th of February for horn (violin or violoncello) and piano; and finally, Fantasiestücke Op. 73 for clarinet (violin or violoncello) and piano, written on the 11th and 12tth of February and originally called Drei Soiréestücke, alluding to the long evenings of chamber music the Schumann couple was in the habit of hosting for friends from the Court Orchestra of Dresden.
If the composer did not expressly foresee the option of the clarinet in two of these works, it is no less true that the openness shown by Schumann in relation to the possibility of the same work being performed on various instruments, as well as the nature of the writing within the works, seem to perfectly justify a version for such a versatile instrument.
Nuno Pinto
Elsa Silva
(translation: Fredrick Gifford)
Details:
3 Romanzen Op. 94
Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102
Adagio und Allegro Op.70
Fantasiestücke Op. 73
3 Romanzen Op. 94
1 Nicht schnell 03’56’’
2 Einfach, innig 04’40’’
3 Nicht schnell 05’07’’
Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102
4 Mit Humor 03’29’’
5 Langsam 04’25’’
6 Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen 04’38’’
7 Nicht zu rasch 02’31’’
8 Stark und markiert 03’11’’
Adagio und Allegro Op.70
9 Langsam, mit innigem Ausdruck 04’08’’
10 Rasch und feuring 05’48’’
Fantasiestücke Op. 73
11 Zart un mit Ausdruck 03’39’’
12 Lebhaft, leicht 03’41’’
13 Rasch un mit Feuer 04’16’’
TOTAL: 53’22’’
Nuno Pinto – clarinet
Elsa Silva – piano
Nuno Pinto and Elsa Silva belong to a new generation of Portuguese musicians possessing demonstrable ability, competence and versatility. Having gained vast experience in numerous concerts as both soloists and members of various chamber groups or contemporary ensembles, these two instrumentalists seek to highlight an on-going musical collaboration that already spans a number of years.
Since studying together at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (ESMAE), in Porto, their shared musical experience has continued in several groups, including OrchestrUtopica, dedicated to contemporary music, and Camerata Senza Misura, a chamber music ensemble performing a varied repertoire, whose programs bring together works from the Classical period until today.
This duo has also accumulated experience in the clarinet course of ESMAE, where Nuno Pinto has been a professor since 1997 and Elsa Silva has been the course’s piano accompanist since 2004.
The duo’s repertoire is extensive, including some of the most significant works written for piano and clarinet from the Classical period to our time. Despite the great quantity of extant works for this instrumentation, Nuno Pinto and Elsa Silva seek to broaden their horizons by challenging contemporary composers to write for the duo, as well as by adapting works originally written for other instruments, thereby enriching their repertory with composers and styles that, one way or another, would go unheard on these instruments. Their programs are built in a creative and pedagogic manner, never losing sight of the public’s point of view, nor of the performance itself.
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