Wilde plays Schumann Early Music Release date: 1 August 2003

Release date: 1 August 2003

ensemble and improvisers

along with the astonishingly perceptive pianist Iain Burnside – is a compelling demonstration of the care and quality our finest composers lavish on creating works which sustain and enrich that tradition"

Catalogue No: DCD34007

"These are not performances for those who like their Britten to sound like the Choir of King's College Cambridge in the days of David Willcocks

Wilde plays Schumann Early Music Release date: 1 August 2003SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The first edition of Schumanns Fantasie in C, Op 17 has a number of differences from the edition more commonly used today, chiefly concerning the first movement (Schumann had originally planned the work as a single movement titled Ruinen [Ruins]). David Wilde has reinstated many significant details both small and large, resulting in a revelatory reading of this tumultuous love poem to the young Clara. In contrast,