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 [log in to unmask]