7:50 Adagio - beautiful! 16:40 Menuetto Allegro 20:12 Allegro 21:30 great powerful chords 21:42 I love this section, especialy 21:53. Look how inventive he plays the low notes, sometimes with right hand, sometimes with left hand between 21:53 - 22:28. A pity that he slightly slows down at 22:03-22:05. 23:20 Very lyrical and soft playing. Maybe he slows down a bit too much, but it's a lovely soft touch. Richter keeps a more steady pace here 26:52 The same wonderful cross-hand playing in the repeat - sorry sound & vision are slightly out of sync What an fantastic composer Schubert was, what a great pianist Brendel is. All played from memory! However, I believe Richter is playing this Allegro really better, with more energy and steady, galloping pace. See my comments there. It's a matter of taste. Listen to the last 3 minutes, super!
@@tedpiano Thank you Ted! Actually I do the same in my private music library. Listening carefully, and then bringing under words what you hear, is very rewarding.
The inventive playing emphasizes the connection between the motivs, it's marvellous! If you think about it: Brendel chose the fingering due to the music itself, not due to what is easier to play. That's the highest form of piano-art.
Brendel’s Schubert playing is comparable to nothing else. Brendel revealed the mystery, softness, heroic and sourig power of schubert sonatas. With all respect, Richter only wanted to play everything on the classical repertoire and schubert was one them. Certainly he was not as sensible as Brendel in cohesion of bars and color changing.
It is hard to compare the craft of the two geniuses. Whether Richter's art is cold and ascetic (being impeccable at the same time), Brendel's is much warmer and intimate.
@@МаксимВзоров-к4щ Brendel's tone is so richly nuanced with a lush spectrum of colors. Although I admire some other pianists' renditions of Schubert--András Schiff, for instance--no one rivals Brendel.
this is perhaps the least accessible and certainly the hardest to play of the master's 3 last sonatas by a long way, yet with patience you can gradually warm to it.
I'm listening to this sonata for the very first time (I'm 23 y.o), and I can say that was very painful. I heard a lot of suffering in this piece, and Brendel is maybe the most "schubertian" of all the pianist I know (not my "favorite" though, still I like him so much). He just ignored the world surrounding him the whole time he plays, and it seems that he wake up at the end of each movement. What a painful awake I must say. I enjoy it, but my heart goes wild, and I feel very strange now. Like is a new weight to carry in me. I dont know if I'm ready to carry this weight. I want to cry and to destroy everything at the same time. However, thank you for the share. I need to take a breath and get out, if not, I will cry all the day long.
Erregende Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit entschiedenem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Pianist!
This is obviously an early Brendel recording. Having listened to everything he ever recorded I look and listen to this and see the “real” Brendel in his youth putting heart and soul into his playing.
What is that last movement? It is absolutely genius! Hope and despair all intertwined. Most intelligent movement of a sonata I have ever heard (other than the first movement of Schubert’s b flat of course!) Brendels performance is the best on UA-cam IMHO…
23.23 one of those passages that makes you think you stayed alive for a reason- Richter does not handle this section well, for him it is just another gallop, Pollini plays a good game without any actual engagement - Brendel here takes us into another world
The 4th movement theme here sounds similar to the 4th movement theme of Beethoven's piano sonata no. 18 op. 31 in E flat major! It's like Schubert took the part of the melody from the 4th movement and created his own version of it, the inspiration by Beethoven is apparent.
Yes, the remarkable thing is how Schubert uses the relative minor of E-flat to convert the jocose character of the Beethoven finale into a deeply introspective one.
This is classical music and piano-playing at its most serious and solemn. Brendel's approach is characteristically unsmiling and intellectual. This is riveting stuff and compulsive listening for the connoisseur. Alas, those who think that the likes of Lang Lang are the greatest pianists would find this unfathomable and repulsive.
Haekal, I have a couple of favourite performances: a) Richter 1972 - the last piece Allegro is absolutely brilliantly played by Richter b) Brendel 1972 c) Pollini ca. 1983 d) Perahia 2003
De la publicité - c' est la peste de notre temps. Ajouter cela en plein milieu de la musique - c'est la barbarie pure, l'absence de chaque respect de l'esprit.
My view on Brendel is always a bit conflicted... listening to the Allegro... very Beethoven-type sound that he employs here - a lot of pedal leaving the whole thing feeling quite heavy. interesting but it definitely also suffers, especially at this speed it becomes quite blurry to the point where it isnt clean. but in other passages it works extremely well, e.g. ends of exposition and recapitulation.
This is a very astute comment about Brendel’s playing. I would agree, although I wouldn’t necessarily say that my view on Brendel is ALWAYS a bit conflicted. I would say, ‘frequently.’ I like this comment in that it makes a distinction between a ‘Beethoven-type sound’ and the touch that I (and presumably phynesse2000) think one needs for Schubert. They are NOT the same, and many performers have made this mistake. Just because they (Beethoven and Schubert) were contemporaries does not mean you can approach them with the same presuppositions about sound, technique, and touch. At any rate, even though I am frequently conflicted about Brendel, I still consider him a fine pianist and musician. I heard him in 1984 I think, playing the B-flat posthumous sonata. Very good performance, not Schnabel (someone who knew very well, the distinction mentioned above) but still very good.
I Allegro - 00:01
II Adagio - 07:58
III Menuetto. Allegro - Trio - 16:50
IV Allegro - 20:17
This is peak Schubert and peak piano playing.
7:50 Adagio - beautiful!
16:40 Menuetto Allegro
20:12 Allegro
21:30 great powerful chords
21:42 I love this section, especialy 21:53. Look how inventive he plays the low notes,
sometimes with right hand, sometimes with left hand between 21:53 - 22:28.
A pity that he slightly slows down at 22:03-22:05.
23:20 Very lyrical and soft playing. Maybe he slows down a bit too much, but it's a lovely soft touch.
Richter keeps a more steady pace here
26:52 The same wonderful cross-hand playing in the repeat - sorry sound & vision are slightly out of sync
What an fantastic composer Schubert was, what a great pianist Brendel is. All played from memory!
However, I believe Richter is playing this Allegro really better, with more energy and steady, galloping pace. See my comments there. It's a matter of taste.
Listen to the last 3 minutes, super!
UA-cam users that share timestamps in the comments of in classical music videos are the backbone of our society.
@@tedpiano Thank you Ted! Actually I do the same in my private music library. Listening carefully, and then bringing under words what you hear, is very rewarding.
Richter does not handle the 23.20 section well, for him it is just another gallop - Brendel here takes us into another world
The inventive playing emphasizes the connection between the motivs, it's marvellous!
If you think about it: Brendel chose the fingering due to the music itself, not due to what is easier to play. That's the highest form of piano-art.
Brendel’s Schubert playing is comparable to nothing else. Brendel revealed the mystery, softness, heroic and sourig power of schubert sonatas. With all respect, Richter only wanted to play everything on the classical repertoire and schubert was one them. Certainly he was not as sensible as Brendel in cohesion of bars and color changing.
a divinely sensitive, reflective, intelligent musician . a real one - of - a - kind !
Wonderful. Nobody plays it better than Maestro Brendel
*cough cough* Richter *cough cough*
@@Francys5FS the B flat 960 sonata, Richter all the way. Brendel so warms my heart the most on the G major
It is hard to compare the craft of the two geniuses. Whether Richter's art is cold and ascetic (being impeccable at the same time), Brendel's is much warmer and intimate.
@@МаксимВзоров-к4щ I agree Richter is pretty spectacular
@@МаксимВзоров-к4щ Brendel's tone is so richly nuanced with a lush spectrum of colors. Although I admire some other pianists' renditions of Schubert--András Schiff, for instance--no one rivals Brendel.
Schubert - Piano Sonata No.19 in C Minor D.958
this is perhaps the least accessible and certainly the hardest to play of the master's 3 last sonatas by a long way, yet with patience you can gradually warm to it.
I'm listening to this sonata for the very first time (I'm 23 y.o), and I can say that was very painful. I heard a lot of suffering in this piece, and Brendel is maybe the most "schubertian" of all the pianist I know (not my "favorite" though, still I like him so much). He just ignored the world surrounding him the whole time he plays, and it seems that he wake up at the end of each movement. What a painful awake I must say. I enjoy it, but my heart goes wild, and I feel very strange now. Like is a new weight to carry in me. I dont know if I'm ready to carry this weight. I want to cry and to destroy everything at the same time.
However, thank you for the share. I need to take a breath and get out, if not, I will cry all the day long.
I appreciate your experience of this sonata. You listen to music the way I do.
Virka obviously gets what Schubert was trying to say. It is one of his most haunted pieces.
Parfait...à tous les sens du terme. Merci encore.
Erregende Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit entschiedenem Anschlag und völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Pianist!
Thanks . . . no words can express how much.
No solo es un virtuoso, excelente pianista ; es un verdadero músico de gran nivel!
it's no. 19 not no.21
This is obviously an early Brendel recording. Having listened to everything he ever recorded I look and listen to this and see the “real” Brendel in his youth putting heart and soul into his playing.
7:00 my favorite part. 😍😍😍😍
S O G O O D
----- 21:42 -----
----- 26:51 -----
the speed!
the thrill!
Praise the Sun!
What is that last movement? It is absolutely genius! Hope and despair all intertwined. Most intelligent movement of a sonata I have ever heard (other than the first movement of Schubert’s b flat of course!) Brendels performance is the best on UA-cam IMHO…
Yes! I agree on all points.
Piano Sonata No. 19(21) In C minor [D.958] 0:00-29:48
Richter aside, I also love Brendel's fast, fluid, lyrical approach that knows when to breathe every once in a while.
Perfection. C'est fin, profond, juste.
I've already heard it in the conservatory :)
Very beautiful
Une des plus belles interprétations, tous compositeurs confondus, que j'aie jamais entendue !
Sans aucun doute. Brendel seul sait extraire la beauté exquise des sonates de Schubert.
Bravo, sehr erstaunlich
Bravo, Schubert, and bravo, Alfred Brendel!
23.23 one of those passages that makes you think you stayed alive for a reason- Richter does not handle this section well, for him it is just another gallop, Pollini plays a good game without any actual engagement - Brendel here takes us into another world
franz mourning ludwig by creating another immortal song
Super clever putting ad just before surprising Dflat chord !!
It is better to install an ad blocker than to curse the darkness.
If there is a composer who moves me still more than Skrjabin, that is Schubert.
Great interpretation for this piece
surely close to unimprovable, such control and continuous motion
My hero!
Schubert is a VERY sensitive composer.
The 4th movement theme here sounds similar to the 4th movement theme of Beethoven's piano sonata no. 18 op. 31 in E flat major! It's like Schubert took the part of the melody from the 4th movement and created his own version of it, the inspiration by Beethoven is apparent.
Yes, the remarkable thing is how Schubert uses the relative minor of E-flat to convert the jocose character of the
Beethoven finale into a deeply introspective one.
I'm so proud
I'm sure Brendel is.
Of whom? Yourself for having good taste in music, the uploader, Schubert for composing it, or Brendel for performing it? 😃
This is classical music and piano-playing at its most serious and solemn. Brendel's approach is characteristically unsmiling and intellectual. This is riveting stuff and compulsive listening for the connoisseur. Alas, those who think that the likes of Lang Lang are the greatest pianists would find this unfathomable and repulsive.
at about 9:59 we seem to hear a prelude to the second movement of the infamous Schubert D.959
By the time Schubert had reached my age, he had already been dead for over thirty years. - j q t -
@John Quill Taylor Why? Which melody in 959?
Whose recording of this piece do you think as the finest?
Haekal,
I have a couple of favourite performances:
a) Richter 1972 - the last piece Allegro is absolutely brilliantly played by Richter
b) Brendel 1972
c) Pollini ca. 1983
d) Perahia 2003
+Gijsbert X Appreciate it!
Richter, hands down (but this one too is very tasteful and lyrical)
Also Imogen Cooper ( Ottavo , 1989 )
I think he wrote this Sonata knowing he had little time left. I think that is what I read many years ago.
comment est-ce possible d'ajouter de la publicité en plein milieu des mouvements ? aimez vous vraiment la musique ?
De la publicité - c' est la peste de notre temps.
Ajouter cela en plein milieu de la musique - c'est la barbarie pure, l'absence de chaque respect de l'esprit.
This is sonata no 19
21:40
12:30
I thought D. 958 was No 19; No 21 is D. 960, or am I mistaken?
He plays the first movement like a prestissimo
esta es la 19 no la 21
los numeros cambian. La classificacion D 958 e il tom (C minor - do menor) no...
Ahhhh con razón, me parecia raro jaja
My view on Brendel is always a bit conflicted... listening to the Allegro... very Beethoven-type sound that he employs here - a lot of pedal leaving the whole thing feeling quite heavy. interesting but it definitely also suffers, especially at this speed it becomes quite blurry to the point where it isnt clean. but in other passages it works extremely well, e.g. ends of exposition and recapitulation.
This is a very astute comment about Brendel’s playing. I would agree, although I wouldn’t necessarily say that my view on Brendel is ALWAYS a bit conflicted. I would say, ‘frequently.’ I like this comment in that it makes a distinction between a ‘Beethoven-type sound’ and the touch that I (and presumably phynesse2000) think one needs for Schubert. They are NOT the same, and many performers have made this mistake. Just because they (Beethoven and Schubert) were contemporaries does not mean you can approach them with the same presuppositions about sound, technique, and touch.
At any rate, even though I am frequently conflicted about Brendel, I still consider him a fine pianist and musician. I heard him in 1984 I think, playing the B-flat posthumous sonata. Very good performance, not Schnabel (someone who knew very well, the distinction mentioned above) but still very good.
Too many UA-cam commercials in the middle of an adagio
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Соната N19
He is really true artist. But the 4th part is too slow as for me and so sounds a bit boring under his fingers
this is no 19 not 21! 21 is in Bfalt!
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Seems a bit clumsy and inelegant to me - the composition I mean - as if we’re trying to be something it isn’t