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Title: A Fine Recording
Review: I bought this CD as a resource for hearing how these pieces are to be played. Not being a pianist, I won't comment on technical matters. I enjoy listening to the CD, I have played it all the way through several times as very pleasant background music.There is one ironic comment in the liner notes, which never ceases to amuse me each time that I read it. After writing of how Schumann intentionally kept the music rather simple in terms of key and rhythm, the writer says "Schumann creates a wealth of rhythmic diversity within his self-imposed limitations, and monotony only creeps in when all the pieces are dutifully played one after the other -- a notion which surely would have horrified the composer."
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