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Schumann: Kinderszenen, Papillons, Arabeske / Catherine Collard

Release Date: 07/08/2016
Label: Erato Catalog #: 602628
Composer:  Robert Schumann Performer:  Catherine Collard Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo

Catherine Collard, who passed away on 10 October 1993 at the age of 46, was a shooting star in the French piano firmament, respected by all her fellow musicians. Music critics admired this fiery temperament that blossomed with marvellous naturalness in the universe of a Robert Schumann and still go into raptures over the inventiveness of sound and the feverish poetry that imbue her Debussy. These highly regarded Schumann recordings, by a Catherine Collard in her thirties at the time, are bathed in a radiant intimacy, wreathed in phrasings that are often magical. Although the LP recorded in 1978 suffers from somewhat muffled sound, especially for the complex Romances, Op. 28, Catherine Collard offers a remarkably flowing interpretation of Read more the Arabeske, without the slightest expressive hesitation. The Romances, Op. 28, like Papillons, Op. 2, attest more to her inflexible musical standards; these Schumann interpretations also have their implacable accents and mad blackness that sometimes recall hard-line pianists such as Vladimir Sofronitzsky or Samuel Feinberg. Read less