Having littered UA-cam and Amazon for years with reviews declaring pianists from Backhaus to Barenboim to be the best - “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!” - I’ll leave superlatives to others and simply say this is a uniquely rewarding cycle. It’s literally Beethoven in camera, playing for himself beat up pianos he mercifully couldn’t hear, experimenting and adjusting so much you’d never believe the results could seem classically inevitable. And yet they do. Fischer’s earlier EMI recordings of a few sonatas and the even fewer live ones we have throw different light on the performer and composer but these - though begun after a live cycle (does anyone have a pirate of that?) - are gripping in a different, more intimate way. That’s not to say Fischer isn’t extroverted when appropriate here. Yet we’re always aware of interiority. Beethoven, after all, did not write these pieces for public performance. Our relationship with them changed after Liszt. Annie Fischer is not better than others. She eludes comparison even with herself. Thanks - particularly since this set is so hard to come by even at an exorbitant cost - for sharing what she chose not to share.
Klare und spannende Interpretation dieser fein komponierten Klaviersonate im inspirierenden Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderschön!
Having littered UA-cam and Amazon for years with reviews declaring pianists from Backhaus to Barenboim to be the best - “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!” - I’ll leave superlatives to others and simply say this is a uniquely rewarding cycle. It’s literally Beethoven in camera, playing for himself beat up pianos he mercifully couldn’t hear, experimenting and adjusting so much you’d never believe the results could seem classically inevitable. And yet they do. Fischer’s earlier EMI recordings of a few sonatas and the even fewer live ones we have throw different light on the performer and composer but these - though begun after a live cycle (does anyone have a pirate of that?) - are gripping in a different, more intimate way. That’s not to say Fischer isn’t extroverted when appropriate here. Yet we’re always aware of interiority. Beethoven, after all, did not write these pieces for public performance. Our relationship with them changed after Liszt. Annie Fischer is not better than others. She eludes comparison even with herself. Thanks - particularly since this set is so hard to come by even at an exorbitant cost - for sharing what she chose not to share.
One of the best Beethoven cycles.
Thanks for posting. This is definitely worth preserving.
Örülök, hogy felkerült óriási művésznőnk zongora- játéka!Csodálatos ember, művész volt..
Klare und spannende Interpretation dieser fein komponierten Klaviersonate im inspirierenden Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderschön!
Wonderfully crisip and clear.
Beautiful ! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018 !
wishing you the same but for 2020 if you don't mind....
THANK YOU!!!....
Grande oportunidade de conhecer, em sequencia, as sonatas de Beethoven através de uma de suas (e seus) maiores intérpretes. Obrigado.
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Блестящее исполнение!
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27/12/2020.
The finesse! Almost unbearable.