An Overgrown Path

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SCHUMANN / MacDOWELL / JANACEK
An Overgrown Path
Richard Saxel (piano)

[ Quartz / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 5 July 2010

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Schumann wrote his Woodland Scenes in just nine days, beginning on 29th December 1848. The cycle of nine short pieces offers typically schizophrenic and ephemeral visions, in which the distinction between fantasy and reality is blurred. This unique and beautifully crafted recording links these three composers by simple woodland themes.

"Saxel's delicately nuanced playing, captured in a warm but clear sound, certainly conveys both the intimacy and longing that epitomise his chosen character pieces...in On an Overgrown Path Saxel demonstrates a sensitive understanding of the composer's idiosyncratic means of expression." (BBC Music)

"No other CD duplicates this programme and it's valuable to have suchj a sensitive and adroit complete account of MacDowell's rarely recorded Sketches." (Classic FM)

"[Saxel] makes a haunting claim for intimacy...to anyone who warms to introspection presented with an enviable taste and clarity this recital is outstanding. Saxel is finely recorded, his own notes reflect his intimacy with music he clearly cherishes" (Gramophone)

Tracks:

Janacek:
Along an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book 1
MacDowell:
Woodland Sketches, Op. 51
Schumann:
Waldszenen, Op. 82