Edition Schott
Le Gai laboureur. Variations humoristiques sur un thème de Robert Schumann dans différents styles de Bach à Liszt. piano.

In the humorous variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, Peter Wittrich lets the Fröhliche Land-mann [Happy Peasant] slip into different roles and sets out with him on a journey through time from the Baroque to the modern era. In ten variations, Wittrich makes the 'Landmann' familiar with the different styles and famous themes of the music epochs by treating Robert Schumann's popular theme contrapuntally in the sense of Bach, imposing Mozart's sonata form on it or letting the 'Landmann' dance a proud polonaise with Frédéric Chopin.
Der fröhliche Landmann also becomes a jazz pianist and improvises with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Petersen in a blues sound. Apart from performing the entire work, individual variations can be arranged in small cycles according to preferences in style, e. g. for 'Jugend musiziert', or counterposed against the original work. A fresh and entertaining contribution to the Schumann Year 2010. Besetzung : piano