Giorgio Gaslini

CD version. Schumann Reflections is a trio record on which Giorgio Gaslini sets the thirteen short pieces of Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen against four movements of his own. It was recorded in Milan in July 1984 and issued that year by Soul Note. The running order alternates the two composers strictly. Three Schumann pieces lead into the first movement of the title suite, the pattern repeats three more times, and Der Dichter Spricht, the last piece of the Schumann cycle, closes the record on its own. Discogs gives each Schumann title in German and Italian, from Von Fremden Ländern Und Menschen (De Paesi E Uomini Sconosciuti) to Träumerei (Sogno).

The session took place on July 6 and 7, 1984 at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, with Giancarlo Barigozzi as recording engineer and Giovanni Bonandrini producing; Gennaro Carone mastered it at PolyGram in Tribiano. Gaslini plays piano with Piero Leveratto on bass and Paolo Pellegatti on drums and percussion, and the sleeve credits every composition to Gaslini, the Schumann pieces included. The two kinds of material differ sharply in scale. Most of the Kinderszenen pieces last a minute or two, Hasche-Mann only 37 seconds and Ritter Vom Steckenpferd under a minute, with Träumerei the longest at just over three minutes. Gaslini's own movements run from four and a half to almost eight minutes. The third, subtitled Lullaby, is the longest track on the album and leads into Fast Zu Ernst, while the fourth comes between Kind Im Einschlummern and the closing Der Dichter Spricht. Gaslini wrote the liner notes in Italian and English, with a second English text by Lee Jeske.

This is the Soul Note CD 121120-2, which Discogs lists as a reissue of the album first released in 1984, with all seventeen tracks in the original order.