R. Schumann - Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (1837)

Josu De Solaun, pianist Granada, SPAIN December 2018 ROBERT SCHUMANN · Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 F = Florestan · E = Eusebius ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOK I ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 01 Lebhaft Lively (Vivace) G major · F & E 02 Innig Intimately (Con intimo sentimento) B minor · E 03 Etwas hahnbüchen* (1st ed.) / Mit Humor (2nd ed.) Somewhat clumsily (Un poco impetuoso) / With humor (Con umore) G major · F 04 Ungeduldig Impatiently (Con impazienza) B minor · F 05 Einfach Simply (Semplice) D major · E 06 Sehr rasch und in sich hinein (1st ed.) / Sehr rasch (2nd ed.) Very quickly and inwardly (Molto vivo, con intimo fervore) / Very quickly (Molto vivo) D minor · F 07 Nicht schnell mit äußerst starker Empfindung (1st ed.) / Nicht schnell (2nd ed.) Not fast, with very great feeling (Non presto profondamente espressivo) / Not fast (Non presto) G minor · E 08 Frisch Freshly (Con freschezza) C minor · F 09 No tempo indication, ♩ = 126 (1st ed.) / Lebhaft (2nd ed.) Lively (Vivace) C major · F ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOK II ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10 Balladenmäßig sehr rasch Balladically very fast (Alla ballata molto vivo) ("Sehr" and "Molto" capitalized in 2nd ed.) D minor, ending in major · F 11 Einfach Simply (Semplice) B minor to D major · E 12 Mit Humor With humor (Con umore) B minor to E minor and major · F 13 Wild und lustig Wildly and merrily (Selvaggio e gaio) B minor and major · F & E 14 Zart und singend Tenderly and singing (Dolce e cantando) E♭ major · E 15 Frisch · Etwas bewegter Freshly (Con freschezza) · With agitation (Poco più mosso) B♭ major, then E♭ major, returning to the opening (option to go round once more) · F & E 16 Mit gutem Humor · Etwas langsamer With good humor (Con buon umore; "Con umore" in 2nd ed.) · A little slower (Un poco più lento) G major, then B minor · leads without a break into 17 Wie aus der Ferne As if from afar (Come da lontano) B major and minor, with a full reprise of No. 2 · F & E 18 Nicht schnell Not fast (Non presto) C major · E ────────────────────────────── "hahnbüchen" (today usually "hanebüchen" or "hagebüchen") is an untranslatable colloquialism, roughly "coarse" or "clumsy". Ernest Hutcheson rendered it as "cockeyed" in "The Literature of the Piano".