Daniel Paul Horn:

>Mikael Rasmussen writes:
>
>>I recently heard Haruko Seki play Kinderszenen in Bath.  I never heard
>>the complete suite before, but the pieces do fit very well together.
>
>In fact, the entire cycle is bound together by its first five notes --
>"B-G-F#-E-D." That figure, or some version of it (the sixth reduced to a
>fourth), appears in many of the thirteen pieces.

I just bought the sheet music, and yes, that five note arc (or derivatives
of) is frequent in the suite.

>(The recitative in the middle of "The Poet Speaks" also quotes the opening
of "Aufschwung" from Schumann's Op. 12.)

Yes, you're right. Its "Aufschwung" transposed to E minor and B minor.
Howerer, the outer sections reminds me of Italian Opera, Chopin and Liszt.

Is that symbolic? The musical world centered around Schumann, according to
himself.

Mikael
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