Jerome Rose Plays Schumann Live in Concert Vol 2

Piano International (Jan, 2013)
There is nothing worse than over-excitable, over- interpreted Schumann, so it comes as something of a relief to encounter this second volume of favourite works from Jerome Rose, who absorbs the composer’s free-flowing imagination into compelling musical paragraphs. Even when the flights of fancy come thick and fast, as in Davidsbundlertanze, one is left with the sensation of supreme logic binding everything together. In the Op 12 Fantasiestucke, not a single ugly note is sounded. No matter how awkward and fatiguing Schumann’s figurations – most infamously in Traumes Wirren – Rose maintains a remarkably relaxed action, so that at times it looks as if he is merely flopping his fingers …