SOTM SOTM July 2022 - Träumerei (Dreaming)

[nigeld]

Café Saxophone is a forum for all saxophone players, so here is a classical piece for this month's SOTM.

Träumerei (Dreaming) is one of the pieces in the Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) suite written by Robert Schumann in 1838.
The original was written for piano, but versions exist for all sorts of instruments.

Notes and backing track are here

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The piano gives a tempo beat for 1 1/2 bars before the saxophone comes in.

Just in case you think this is only for classical players, here is a version by Coleman Hawkins

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHuHEZG2zUA


And here is a more classical version by Alvaro Collao León

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES7u9GqElUE


Enjoy!

 

[jbtsax]

What a beautiful melody to show off one's musicianship. I confess however that while listening to the classical version on the soprano sax, I kept waiting for the "bridge". 😀

 

[rhysonsax]

Here's a saxophone quartet version:

View: https://youtu.be/UfR76DHUVhk



And an unusual one by jazz alto great Arne Domnerus, here accompanied by Gustaf Sjökvist on the organ and playing an arrangement by Bengt Hallberg:

View: https://youtu.be/k664MoGmxiA


Rhys

 

[rhysonsax]

I thought it would be nice to give a runout to the Dolnet baritone mouthpiece that Steve Howard reamed to make fit on my neck cork. I like the warm sound it gives and is my new favourite for saxophone quartet playing.

This recording using a piano backing track that I found online and it is in concert Db which matches some sheet music that I already had. It is very slightly different to Nigel's music in a couple of places.

Traumerei - Rhys Bari V1.mp3 - Box

Rhys

 

[nigeld]

I wan't expecting the first recording to be on bari!
I like that sound - it has enough of the gruffness that I expect from a bari without losing the ability to be lyrical.

 

[rhysonsax]

I bought a book + CD via the forum called "Swinging Romantic Play-Along" which has classical pieces in "easy swing arrangements". For Traumerei arranger Mark Armstrong has done it as a medium Bossa Nova. My soprano recording goes like this:

Traumerei - Rhys Sop Bossa V1.mp3 - Box

Rhys

 

[nigeld]

I bought a book + CD via the forum called "Swinging Romantic Play-Along" which has classical pieces in "easy swing arrangements". For Traumerei arranger Mark Armstrong has done it as a medium Bossa Nova. My soprano recording goes like this:

Traumerei - Rhys Sop Bossa V1.mp3 - Box

Rhys

I wouldn’t have thought that an arrangement like that would work, but it does.
Well done!
Is that your R&C semi-curved soprano?

 

[rhysonsax]

I wouldn’t have thought that an arrangement like that would work, but it does.
Well done!
Is that your R&C semi-curved soprano?

Thanks Nigel. yes, that's my R&C Saxello with a Drake mouthpiece.

Looking forward to hearing recordings of this tune from you and others too.

Rhys

 

[wuffysax]

have also tried my hand at this title.

A Keilwerth sax is actually not so well suited for classical music, because it's just almost too fat in tone...but anyway, I played it with fun...

Träumerei /Schumann.....Saxversion by Wuffy

by wuffysax on hearthis.at | Classical

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Best regards

Wuffy

 

[nigeld]

have also tried my hand at this title.

A Keilwerth sax is actually not so well suited for classical music, because it's just almost too fat in tone...but anyway, I played it with fun...

Träumerei /Schumann.....Saxversion by Wuffy

by wuffysax on hearthis.at | Classical

hearthis.at

Best regards

Wuffy

I think the Keilwerth sounds great for classical, in your hands at least.
A very fine rendering. I loved the chromatic run at the end, which I thought seemed entirely appropriate to the period.
I wasn’t so keen on the organ though - I found it distracting.

 

[RichardSX90]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fhKaAX5dOc

 

[Jeanette]

Thank you @nigeld for hosting this month.

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Jx