About This Song
About "Kinderszenen, Op.15: I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen" by Arcadi Volodos
Arcadi Volodos teases out the strange, homesick beauty of Schumann’s miniature. The playing is delicate but never precious, each note a small window onto a foreign land. There is calm in the phrasing, but unease in the harmonic turns—a child’s wonder shadowed by adult knowing.