Daniel Paul Horn wrote:

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

If "Aufschwung" is a piece in f-minor, 6/8, then I know it.  Funny, I could
swear it was a quote from "La Ricordanza", Liszt Ab-major study.  The
recitative reminded me more of Liszt and Chopin than Schumann.

Mikael
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