Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen op.15 (Scenes from Childhood)-Part l
1. Von fremden Landern und Menschen (About foreign lands and people)
2. Kuriose Geschichte (Curious story)
3. Haschemann (Catch me if you can)
4. Bittendes Kind (Pleading child)
5. Glukes genug (Happiness)
6. Wichtige Begebenheit (Important Event)
Vladimir Horowitz - Piano
Hamburg 21 June 1987
Horowitz 'The last concert
Illustration - Alice in Wonderland
N.B. I have uploaded Traumerai that comes after this piece.
"Alice in Wonderland"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (commonly known as "Alice in Wonderland") is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of "literary nonsense", and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential,[3] especially in the fantasy genre.
Synopsis
Alice falls asleep in a wood and dreams she sees a white rabbit, which she follows down a rabbit hole and through an underground passage. The rabbit leaves Alice in the hallway of many doors. On a table she finds a golden key, but finds the only door the key will open is too small for her to get through. She finds a bottle on the table labelled 'Drink Me'. She does, and it causes her to shrink until she is small enough to get through the door. However she is then too short to reach the key, which she left on the table. Finding a cake labelled 'Eat Me' she tries it, and grows again to a huge size, grabs the key, and then fans herself smaller using a fan left by the white rabbit. Now very small, she goes through the door into a garden, where she sees a big dog, and then enters the rabbit's house, where again she grows large, but by using the rabbit's fan she disappears.
Alice reappears before the house of the Duchess and goes into the kitchen, where she rescues a baby from a cook, who is throwing cutlery. But the baby turns into a pig in her hands. Moving on, she is given directions to the Mad Hatter's house by a Cheshire Cat, and arrives during a tea party, which she joins. However, the behaviour of the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Doormouse offends her, and she leaves to stumble across the procession of the Queen of Hearts, who offers to play croquet with her. Alice offends the Queen, who calls her executioner, but Alice boxes his ears and runs away, which causes her to wake and realise it was all a dream.