Alfred Brendel plays Schubert - Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 (1988)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- FRANZ SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958
00:00:22 I. Allegro
00:08:18 II. Adagio
00:16:47 III. Menuetto: Allegro
00:19:58 IV. Allegro
Piano Sonata in A major, D959
00:29:20 I.Allegro
00:41:23 II. Andantino
00:49:19 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
00:53:52 IV. Rondo: Allegretto
Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960
01:07:33 I. Molto moderato
01:22:47 II. Andante sostenuto
01:32:24 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza
01:36:15 IV. Allegro, ma non troppo
ALFRED BRENDEL, piano
Filmed in the Great Hall of the Middle Temple, London, January 1988
On January 5, 2020, Alfred Brendel will have his 89th birthday. Thumb up please if you think it's a day to celebrate!
Yes, but he's the perfect "piano age" now -- 88. :-)
@@jimhendricks88 hahahahahh
Jim Hendricks LMAO
Jim Hendricks 88 keys
uncredible ...
Brendel is like an old friend whose entrance in a room always brings comfort and joy. I remember his Vox Beethoven Sonata Cycle back in the day and how it turned heads . He took up the Schubert Baton passed to him by Schnabel and brought a pathos and vitality to these long neglected works. He always paid strict attention to tempo and dynamics and tried to play the works as written and to me he almost always got things right. He writes with both intelligence and humor, his eclectic and sometimes odd musings are the works of a man who despite his humorous appearance thinks deeply . I am happy he has lived a long fruitful life. One could only wish that Schubert had done the same.
Steve, agree that Brendel never disappoints, and consistently delights, like the very best of friends. Recently came across a scene from a novel by Len Deighton in which the protagonist (Sampson) pulls into a lay by late at night to treat his unhappiness with a bottle of Scotch. He turned on his radio. It was playing Schubert by Brendel. After listening for a few minutes Sampson threw the bottle out the window. Kindred spirit!
Regarding the passing of the baton, Richter must fit into this transfer. Listen to his studio recording (1972) of D958 on UA-cam. It may be even better than Brendel’s.
Вы нашли такие проникновенные слова для этого музыканта! И я тоже всегда печалюсь о короткой жизни Шуберта.
How lucky we are to have these marvelous recordings of Alfred Brendel. Nobody plays Schubert better.
Claudio Arrau
@@JuanPerez-xd5nh The ranking of great performers easily gets absurd. All great music allows a multitude of interpretations, all of which may be equally valid.
Comparisons are unfortunate perhaps, I also enjoy Maria Joao Pires.
@@JuanPerez-xd5nh Mr. Arrau is so wonderful, yes. I love his Chopin nocturnes.
Also Beethoven.
During 1963 I was a medical student in Santiago de Chile. I went to every classical music concert in the city, in order to write a weekly musical comment for the students paper. In the program appeared the 5th Beethoven piano concerto, with a renowned soloist. One week before the concert, the programmed soloist had a problem and in a hurry the young (31 years old) Alfred Brendel was contacted and asked to take the part, which he fortunately did. At that time he was completely unknown in Chile. I attended his concert anyhow, and I still remember the impression his playing made in me. I was fascinated and predicted that he would become a great pianist. I am afraid he already was a great pianist and we were simply unaware of his existence and his superb quality. Alfred Brendel retired a few years ago, after a distinguished career, being considered one of the world foremost masters in Bach, Schubert and Beethoven. The present recording of Schubert late piano concertos attest to his technical perfection and intelectual prowess.
Mi papá estudió medicina en la U.Chile, debe haber sido por esos años, él estudio en Valpo pero creo que los últimos años los cursaban en Stgo. Bueno él me inculcó el interés por la música clásica, particularmente Beethoven, Schubert, Listz, Bach, Haendel, Mozart, etc. Mis hermanos y yo nos acostumbramos al estilo de Brendel, Arrau, cziffra y otros. Ahora disfruto de esta hermosa música
@@marzioaraujo2449 En esos años los estudiantes de la universidad apreciábamos más que ahora la cultura clásica. Es una suerte haber conservado el amor por la belleza y por las grandes obras del pasado. Es una herencia de la que debemos estar orgullosos de disfrutar y transmitir a nuestros descendientes. La mejor suerte y gracias por su comentario.
You mean sonatas, don’t you? I don’t think Schubert wrote any piano concertos. I agree though; Brendel is a great musician and pianist.
@@quaver1239 Of course I was wrong in typing concertos; my comment referred to the piano sonatas that were the subject of my comment. I am not aware whether Schubert wrote any piano concert. Thanks for pointing this error.
Jorge, muchísimas gracias por compartir este relato tan precioso con nosotros. Saludos desde Londres, Steve
The man has an absolutely perfect touch.
His performances are so absolutely admirable
I could listen to Brendel play Schubert forever! In fact, I think I will!
You are very lucky to be out of the grip of the law of diminishing returns.
Yes, I ‘ m determined to die listening Brendel and some others.
@@nelidaferraz6497😊
Alfred Brendel has been one of my favorite pianists for over 60 years. (I'm now 82.) My knowlege of classical music and its performers is one of an avid listener, but I've listened thoroughly enough that I was able to start and run a business selling classical sheet music.
Esther Breslau
There are passages in these phenomenal pieces that make one ask "what century is this from" -- I suppose that's one reason they have an eternal appeal and offer Mankind endless wonder.
That's a magnificent Steinway. His sound is gorgeous.
so wonderful youtube lets these 3 masterpieces be heard and brendel,s genius appreciated
Schubert : le royaume de Brendel, quelle chance d'avoir cette vidéo !
Programme somptueux defendu par un maître...incandescent.❤
Brendel's Schubert and Beethoven will never be surpassed.
This is the best interpretation of schubert. Everything is perfect 👌
I grew up with Brendel's interpretation of Schubert, Beethoven and Mozart and the music seems to have adopted him in my memory, but we can still appreciate others, especially Maria Joao Pires for me.
He was playing this at the time he was laying down his definitive recordings of Schubert for Philips which will never be bettered so this a really important video document. Thank you so much uploading.
Однажды в Лондоне, проходя недалеко от дома Бренделя в Хамстеде, я услышала как за деревьям его сада раздавались звуки его рояля. Альфред Брендель играл Шуберта. Это было очарование.
I greeted Alfred Brendel in a reception in Dallas following his performance and was shocked to see virtually all of his fingers had band-aids on or near their tips - as in this recording at 1:27 min.
Schubert! Brendel! Sublime!
Easy to get a feel for the music as a whole. And comfortable and beautiful to listen to with Brendle.
Careful! It’s Brendel, not Brendle, although you pronounce it as Brendle.
Sans commentaires ! C'est la perfection. Brendel est le meilleur interprète de Schubert de tous les temps !!!
et Sviatoslav Richter ?
Je suis dacord jean pierre. Il est au meme temp incroiable et perfect dans l’espositions de chaque ideé musical.
Et Arrau, Badura-Skoda, Demus, Kempff, etc. ?
A master with a unique touch! RIP...
What a wonderful 1 3/4 hours of the most inspired music from one of the greatest composers played by a truly remarkable musician! Thanks so much for posting this video.
Pour moi Brendel est l'interprète idéal de Schubert, il s'identifie à lui. Un autre génie du piano Schubertien est Radu Lupu. Mais Brendel a été le premier à interpréter aussi bien les dernières sonates, comme lors de ce concert de Vladivostok, mais aussi les Impromptus, les Moments Musicaux... Son toucher atteint la perfection, et je ne me lasse pas de l'admirer. Merci pour ce partage.
Thank you for posting it.My husband an I had seen Brendel in two different occasions at Wigmore Hall. And by coincidence in one of these occasions we met him in person the day after the recital at Heathrow flying to Paris, just like us. A real gentleman and a great pianist.
I heard him one time in concert. After the intermission he began again, and a few times he was disturbed by people coming late. He stoped, said, I give you ten minutes to go back to your places. He left, came back to his seat after this time, everyone absolutely silent, the doors occupated by ushers in order to prevent further disruptions, he waited perhaps 5 minutes to concentrate the eyes closed and than began a wonderful second part.
Been a Brendel fan for a long long time. Thanks for posting this.
Brendel did lots of good work for for the world of classical music.
Very gracious pianist. Sometimes being theatrical can be distracting, he makes it sound, look, and feel good.
i came to this video after hearing the use of D960's second movement in the film 'the favourite' about a year and a half ago and i've been hooked ever since
This is magical. When he played this from Schubert, the Gods were all listening.
The UA-cam placing an advertisment on this masterpiece is a crime against humanity.
I got YT Premium to avoid these offenses! Well, my wife did --- boy am I glad now!
Excelente presentación del Maestro Brendel para estas bellas obras de Frank Schubert. Muchas gracias por el aporte,
Schubert, played like this, is powerful.
Thank Dao for the masters, cause they giving us, a way to look into the mystery of the beuty of this world, what hold sound? the air? the soul? the non being.
Brendel plays Schubert, wonderful. And I so enjoy ALL the advertisements every few minutes. D.A. NYC
Having Adverstisements on UA-cam is a shame, you should install this www.google.com/search?q=adblock&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAE795AE795&oq=adbloc&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.2572j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
@@guillaumecapon9519 Thanks for that link - just done it! Intrusive ads in the middle of Schubert is offensive!
Beautiful. One spot is very clean and crisp, though it is played fast, yet distinct.
Brendel understand 's how to play Schubert in a right away!❤
Grandios, mehr kann ich dazu nicht sagen.
Very, very enjoyable..
We came from the winter sleep. This is a Nuri Bilge Ceylan movie. This song is playing on the movie. Part of 42:53
Schubert's C minor sonata D. 958 - my favorite sonata of them all. Let's see what he does with it.
thanks a lot Vladivostok 1969for uploading
Al absolutely rocks it. Top notch. D.A. NYC
He always makes music delicious like a cooking mother of mine.
Best Franz Schubert's perfomer of all times! #AlfredBrendel
He is very good, but Artur Schnabel is another dimension
I agree with that , Schnabel is good too
@@graingerthomash.n.8900 and dusan; sviatoslav Richter!!! then there is everybody else.
@@sean8470 Arrau and Badura-Skoda also playd Schubert masterful.
@@sean8470 Mostly Richter I'd say .
Schubert's final sonatas as how they are played by the great Brendel are sublime. The Rondo in D 959 in particular is celestial. This is a perfect union of two poets: Schubert and Brendel.
T Eddie DDE the rest of
good production quality for such an old recording
Bravo!
Magico😢
splendide.
Happy Birthday Mr. Brendel! Thanks for many years of wonderful music.
L'andantino de la Sonate en LA majeur D959...est tout simplement divin...Brendel est rarement vu aussi habité par la musique de Schubert...la musique des dieux...
Wow...what insight and integrity (along with flawless technique). Pianists like him are becoming pretty rare.
Jim Hendricks : No, they are not becoming “pretty rare.” There is his student, Paul Lewis; there are all the Radu Lupu recordings, greater even than Brendel’s. And, of course, there is the greatest of them all, still alive and well: Sir András Schiff, whose Schubert is glorious and based on the original manuscripts. A Maestro like no other.
Did actually anyone notice that the opening motive of the 1st mv. of 960 seems to relate to a part of the hymn "Adeste Fideles" (engl. "O Come, All Ye Faithful")? You can hear this best at 01:21:50, where the motive is varied and then repeated once a third higher. It lacks jumping down a quart at the motive's end and when repeated a second down, but when listening to it, I always think of the line "O come, let us adore Him" from the hymn...
Yeah, they start the same. It kind of spoils it for me a bit because I'm expecting it to go back to the dominant chord (the chord on "Him"). But Schubert lets that tonic chord hang in the air for a whole bar.
A true miracle!
Thank you Haruki Murakami
Brendel le plus grand interprète de Schubert, et ces sonates sont de véritables bijoux. Mais les coupures pub, quelle hérésie !!!
Je les écoute sur Spotify ...sans coupures1
jouer pendant 1h45 sans partition, mémoriser toutes ces notes !!! cela reste un mystère du cerveau humain, pour moi
Interprétation parfaite!....
Gracie Maestro per quell' approcio spirituale che rivela l'essenza profonda di questa opera didvina.
He knows Schubert as if he has personally met him.
Best goddam UA-cam video of all time
There there are like three... This is one of the three best vids. Then the Zimmerman Ballads... And some of Tchai.
What a wonderful interpreting from F. Schubert. The best.
Le 2ème mouvement est un des plus beau morceaux des sonates de Schubert et favoris aussi d'Alfred Brendel qui est parti au ciel début janvier 2023. Les autres n'ont pas l'air de le savoir. 🕊️ Mais la publicité qui interrompt est ch...
Brendel interpreta a Schubert en el sentido mas amplio y profundo de su significado. Escuchando su canto uno concluye que Brendel es Schubert
The development at 58:49 touches me so much every time.
Yes. Powerful music. How about 44:13 ? Same type of deeply inspired development
Vladivostok 1969, I scrolled down to look at the licensing agreements and they don't match the actual content. For example, Amir Katz is listed as the performer of the C-minor sonata on Sony Classical. Apparently these record companies are incorrectly claiming they own the content of your video and are getting revenues from the adverts.
God D958 is so underrated
Might be due to the fact that the opening of the first movement is not as catchy as the one of the other two, so you have to wait until the arpeggiated theme arrives, and if the attention is not sustained enough, one would fail to grasp the profound inner beauty of this first movement.
The Erasmus of the music world!
still magnificent
❤ Maravillas 😮
best video on youtube
Sublime
imagine the level of love Brendel
put in learning to play like this:
then laugh at your level of love
for your own vocation. I mean:
this is an example of the highest
level of love for a vocation there is
out there. I could recall now Perahia & Pires.
I heard him play these sonatas, thirty-six years ago at the Royal Northern College of Music and, unfortunately, my opinion hasn’t changed. It’s like strait-jacketed Schubert. A little like his disciples play.
Master.
EL MAESTRO
The fact that Brendel is mostly self-taught always makes me wonder “…how?”…
with these to notch petformers you‘ll never know if they play it for artistic reasons or because there is a hole in the catalogue.
it seems to see Schubert himself playing, a reincarnation
proof of beauty and goodness on earth
Fist thank or posting this musical treasure 2nd i agree with positive opinions like Chilean comments and from the criics i only can say Quijotes words Ladran Sancho señal que cabalgamos (Cervantes Don Quixote)
That phrase appears nowhere in Cervantes' Don Quixote; it is fake news.
Sounds like Brendel might be Schubert reincarnated, returned to record these sonatas exactly as they should be played. Schubert writes to give your ears a great workout with no breaks. Always something grabbing their attention.
كافكا على الشاطئ
Kafka on the Shore
Great book!
( 53:53 IV RONDO SONATA A MAJOR D 959 )
He's wearing some kind of protection on some of his fingertips. Is that some special "aid-product" for pianists? If so I think I could use it at times! (The performance is admirable and quite interesting, Brendel being steeped in Schubert milieu and inheritance. I like his Beethoven but in these sonatas I generally prefer Richter.)
Les "divines longueurs" un qualificatif dont on affuble volontiers certains passages de la musique de Schubert (ici, le 4ème mvt de la D 958, 2ème de la D959 et 4ème encore de la D960) sont, selon les musicologues, la transcription musicale par Schubert du "bruit du monde". Nietzsche, en comparant Beethoven et Schubert, les décrit ainsi: alors que Beethoven serait l'auditeur idéal d'un ménétrier, Schubert serait ce ménétrier idéal car de tous, c'est lui qui a obtenu l'héritage musical le plus riche, et, dit-il, les musiciens futurs pourront tirer profit presque sans limite des innombrables inventions qu'il a laissées, étant déjà bien connu de ses biographes pour être friand de ces mêmes inventions, et aussi un musicien estimé de Beethoven.
Je ne sais pas si on hérite par "obtention", le génie peut-il être transmis de cette façon, il y a une part indissociable de la personne ( comme Florence Foresti dans son spectacle comme on lui dit:" Vous accoucherez par voie basse"... est-ce qu'on peut tousser un enfant ?), lire plutôt: "car de tous, c'est lui qui a l'héritage musical le plus riche" ...
Bonjour, est-ce que par hasard vous pourriez me dire de quel ouvrage est issu cette citation de Nietzsche que vous mentionnez, si elle est précédée et développée? Je suis effectivement d'avis que sur de nombreux points injustement négligés par la pensée et la musique de notre temps, Schubert est nettement au-dessus de Beethoven (sans que ça vienne diminuer la stature du denier, qui n'a de toute façon pas besoin de mon jugement pour continuer à briller au firmament de la musique), et je recherche assez avidement des auteurs qui puissent m'être d'un secours quelconque pour étayer et nourrir cette intuition.
Beethoven avait dit de lui: celui-là me surpassera...
He can play like that with a band-aid on his finger.
He himself explained that he has brittle finger nails which break very easily. I suppose, if he has always played with plasters on his finger tips, he doesn't notice any more.
Apparently he likes to joke he’s the only person who can play the piano while plastered!
This is probably explained by his rather unusual finger position, sometimes he actually presses the keys from above with his fingernails.
Divin
Too bad Beethoven never heard these sonatas, he would have been star-struck.
I think Schubert was trying to out-Beethoven, Beethoven!
@@allansegall4502 -- Yes, Schubert was Beethoven's heir-apparent. Kudos from San Agustinillo!
At least Beethoven heard some of Schubert’s earlier work and said how truly promising Franz would be. The world has been so impoverished, though, by the early demise of so many artists-Raphael, Mozart, Byron, Chopin, Bellini, Proust, Lorca, Modigliani and, especially deeply, dear Schubert.
41:23 Andantino
Mr. Brendel had his 2nd finger hurt on his right hand, might have been painful to play for almost 2 hours (That's not mentioning multiple possible takes)
He usually wore plasters on his fingers when playing.
@@susanbrady3507 Yea, probably had brittle nails.
@@Qee7en I seem to remember a TV interview (loooong ago) where he mentioned he was playing so much he suffered from the skin on his fingers wearing thin, and that was why he was wearing plasters...
I don't get why, in the D958, the first movement rushes by so???/
Paul Jones : I agree with you, and simply don’t understand what Brendel thinks he is doing. Not only is the 1st movement like Speedy Gonzalez, but also Brendel pulls it about all over the place. So disappointing. Try listening to András Schiff’s performance of the D958 (full performance is on UA-cam). It is exquisite. He has studied Schubert’s original manuscripts (in a private collection that he was permitted to examine), and knows what he is doing.
Maybe,without him even consciously deciding to do it,he's playing it fast coz the pain from his sore finger is causing his brain,in an effort to protect his finger from further damage,to send out messages to his muscles a bit faster than it would if he was playing the piece with all fingers in good condition. So it's not so much him playing fast,as his brain(or ultimately,Mother Nature)that wants him to get through the piece at as fast a speed as sounds acceptable.His brain even works to make his perception of the speed of the piece as being slower than it actually is(in other words,he hears it as being at the correct speed),so that he doesn't make the conscious decision to slow it down to the more desirable tempo-thereby making him have to play for longer,possibly leaving his finger too sore to do D959 etc. More evidence(if any was required)of what a remarkable piece of machinery the brain truly is.
@@darrylschultz6479 lmao
@@pooliansshots6731 😁👌
¿Qué tiene puesto en los dedos?
I believe this man would be a wonderful conductor.Chrish12345-Your comments have the stench of frustration.
4:33
Meus caros amigos alfred brendel é de uma familha dividida onde na segunda guerra mundial
A parte de alfred foi para russia
Enquato a outra foi para o brasil
EU SOU UM PARENTE DISTANTE DE ALFRED BRENDEL
MEU NOME É Axel Aluá Falavena Brendel
1:07:25
El apreciar a brahms muy temprano y en el caribe no me permitio valorar a tiempo a schubert
Could you elaborate? I'm very interested..
I came from "Kafka on the Shore". Anyone else?
Not the same piano pieces as in the book, but I prefer these three to that one anyway!!
Amen
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