The Merry Peasant Humorous variations on a theme by Robert Schumann in barious styles from Bach to Liszt 變奏曲 主題 風格 鋼琴獨奏 朔特版
在音樂中，人們曾多次通過《假面舞會》（Un ballo in maschera）、《化妝舞會》（Masquerade）或《狂歡節》（Carnaval）等作品表現出將自己暫時偽裝成他人的樂趣和魅力。在羅伯特-舒曼主題的幽默變奏曲中，彼得-維特裡希（Peter Wittrich）讓 "快樂的農民"（Fröhliche Landmann）扮演不同的角色，與他一起踏上從巴羅克到現代的時光之旅。在十個變奏曲中，維特裡希讓蘭德曼熟悉了不同音樂時代的不同風格和著名主題，如用巴赫的對位法處理羅伯特-舒曼的流行主題，將莫札特的奏鳴曲形式強加於主題之上，或讓蘭德曼與弗雷德里克-蕭邦一起跳起驕傲的波羅乃茲舞。蘭德曼還成為爵士鋼琴家，與艾拉-菲茨傑拉德（Ella Fitzgerald）和奧斯卡-彼得森（Oscar Petersen）即興演奏藍調，最後在大結局中與柴可夫斯基、李斯特和拉赫瑪尼諾夫一起，盡情揮灑 19 世紀的精湛技藝。除了演奏整部作品外，個別變奏曲還可根據風格喜好編排成小迴圈，如為 Jugend musiziert 而作，或與原作對置。這是對 2010 舒曼年的一個新鮮而有趣的貢獻"
作曲家: Schumann, Robert / Wittrich, Peter
樂器: piano
出版社: Schott Music
曲目:
Contrapuntal Exercises based on Bach-Prelude and Fugue - Your True friend W.A. Mozart - Forestan amr in arm with Chopin - Hungarian tribute to Bartók with one of Kurtág's flowers - Viennese medley - Eusebius and Fritz Kreisler in a (Viennese) woodland scene - Bobert, keep on groovin - New ways ahead for the Merry Peasant - Clowning tête-à-tête with Claude - Carnival scenes from Rio - Grand final brillant
The fun and fascination with disguising oneself to be someone else for a moment has been expressed many times in music through compositions such as Un ballo in maschera, Masquerade or Carnaval. In the humorous variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, Peter Wittrich lets the Fröhliche Landmann [Happy Peasant] slip into different roles and sets out with him on a journey through time from the Baroque to the modern era. In ten variations, Wittrich makes the Landmann familiar with the different styles and famous themes of the music epochs by treating Robert Schumann's popular theme contrapuntally in the sense of Bach, imposing Mozart's sonata form on it or letting the Landmann dance a proud polonaise with Frédéric Chopin. Der fröhliche Landmann also becomes a jazz pianist and improvises with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Petersen in a blues sound before he indulges, in a Grand finale, in the brilliant virtuosity of the 19th century together with Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Rachmaninov. Apart from performing the entire work, individual variations can be arranged in small cycles according to preferences in style, e.g. for Jugend musiziert, or counter-posed against the original work. A fresh and entertaining contribution to the Schumann Year 2010.