Music that represents music as someone remembers it, is there such a thing? Topics include the famous flashback in the film Casablanca, Schumann’s Carnaval, musical ‘souvenirs’ and ‘réminiscences’. With a complete recording of Liszt’s (somewhat musty?) etude Ricordanza.
The theme relates to episodes 2 (Darling they’re playing our tune), 6 (Musical quotation) and 19 (Meta-music).
00:00 Intro
00:36 Music and memory
01:53 Flashback: Casablanca
09:26 Recurrence and recall
12:32 Schumann, alias Florestan
18:03 Musical souvenirs
23:29 Réminiscences
25:23 Liszt: Ricordanza
Music fragments:
01:53 (and after) Casablanca (film). Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart. Warner Brothers 1943
10:53 Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte. F. Wunderlich, H. Schmidt. Philips 420.852-2
12:10 Robert Schumann, Carnaval op. 9: Florestan*
16:37 Robert Schumann, Carnaval op. 9: Florestan. Ch. Rosen 1983 (appendix in The Romantic Generation, 1995)
19:02 Clara Wieck, Souvenir de Vienne*
21:25 Mikhail Glinka, Souvenir d’une mazurka*
26:33 Franz Liszt, Ricordanza. Etudes d’exécution transcendante No. 9 (complete; the ending in the version of Lina Ramann’s Liszt-Pädagogium, 1901, recommended by Busoni in his edition of the etudes.)*
*Lodewijk Muns, piano
References:
L. Muns, Music Remembered – in Music (2) (and references).
F. Busoni: Zum hundertsten Geburtstage Franz Liszt’s: Sechs Klavier-Abende von Ferruccio Busoni [Berlin] 1911 [programme notes].
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