James Freeman – Chopin, Schumann & Others: Piano Works (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

James Freeman – Chopin, Schumann & Others: Piano Works (2024)
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Brahms: Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2; Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117; Brahms: Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 4; Debussy: Préludes – Book 1; Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15.

James Freeman (born 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. He is also the artistic director and conductor of Philadelphia’s renowned contemporary music chamber orchestra and ensemble, Orchestra 2001, which he founded in 1988. He was trained at Harvard University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D), Tanglewood, and Vienna’s Akademie für Musik. He counts among his principal teachers pianists Artur Balsam and Paul Badura-Skoda and his father, double bassist Henry Freeman.

As a conductor, he has commissioned and given the first performances of many new works by American composers. In 1990 he was given the first Philadelphia Music Foundation’s award for achievement in Classical Music. Other honors include two Fulbright Fellowships, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Swarthmore College, the German Government, and Harvard University’s Paine Traveling Fellowship. He spent the spring of 1991 at the Moscow Conservatory as a guest conductor and lecturer on new American music.”

Tracklist:
1-1. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 2 in A Minor (03:02)
1-2. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 2 in E Minor (02:09)
1-3. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 4 in A Minor (05:21)
1-4. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 59, B. 157: No. 1 in A Minor (03:46)
1-5. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 59, B. 157: No. 2 in A-Flat Major (02:45)
1-6. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 67: No. 4 in A Minor, B. 163 (02:19)
1-7. James Freeman – Mazurkas, Op. 68: No. 2 in A Minor, B. 18 (02:46)
1-8. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (01:35)
1-9. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 2, Kuriose Geschichte (00:59)
1-10. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 3, Hasche-Mann (00:38)
1-11. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 4, Bittendes Kind (00:50)
1-12. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 5, Glückes genug (00:53)
1-13. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 6, Wichtige Begebenheit (00:56)
1-14. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Träumerei (03:02)
1-15. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 8, Am Kamin (01:16)
1-16. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd (00:44)
1-17. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 10, Fast zu ernst (02:20)
1-18. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 11, Fürchtenmachen (01:49)
1-19. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 12, Kind im Einschlummern (01:50)
1-20. James Freeman – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 13, Der Dichter spricht (03:17)
1-21. James Freeman – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 76: No. 2, Capriccio. Allegretto non troppo (04:21)
1-22. James Freeman – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 4, Intermezzo. Adagio (04:47)
1-23. James Freeman – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1, Andante moderato (04:50)
1-24. James Freeman – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 2, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione (04:38)
1-25. James Freeman – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3, Andante con moto (05:59)
1-26. James Freeman – Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 4, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir (04:23)
1-27. James Freeman – Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 9, La sérénade interrompue (02:29)
1-28. James Freeman – Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:47)
1-29. James Freeman – Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 12, Minstrels (02:29)

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