Alfred Brendel - Schubert - Four Impromptus, D 899
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Franz Schubert
Four Impromptus, D 899, Op 90
No 1 in C minor
No 2 in E-flat major
No 3 in G-flat major
No 4 in A-flat major
Alfred Brendel, piano - เพลง
The world would be a better place if more people would listen to this.
I agree
Nah, they are listening to Bad Bunny I'm afraid. To listen to this magnificent pianist is like a spirtual experience but see, humanity is lost today. I hope there are lots of Johnatan Livingston Seagulls amongst us who reject the music trash of today.
I remember sitting in first row during an Alfred Brendel Liszt and Bach recital 44 years ago. I was merely 14 and that was my very first live concert ever. I had just started to learn the piano, so at first i sat there with baited breath, crossing my fingers for the maestro not to hit a wrong note. He didn't. He played the Italian Concerto, Benédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, B-A-C-H and a chorale. I remember sitting there in total awe, not understanding what was happening to me. Life has never been the same since. Thank you, vielen, vielen Dank, Maestro Brendel.
Like you I went to a Brendel concert when I was a teenager and it affected me deeply. Several times during the concert I realised that I was holding my breath and had to remind myself to start breathing again!
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No 1 in C minor 0:10
No 2 in E-flat major 10:05
No 3 in G-flat major 14:55
No 4 in A-flat major 20:50
Thanks so much for this! :)
Thank u so much!
Thanks!
Thank you , again!❤
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I love Brendel's playing because he wasn't born into a musical family who prodded him into playing before he could walk, like many tiger moms. He did this all on his own. He admitted he's not a great sight-reader. He had to really work hard to achieve where he is.
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Yes a lot of young kids get it handed to them on a plate and are then seen as geniuses? They have best teaching best pianos etc etc so it's easier
When it comes to Schubert, Brendel is absolutely unmatched, perfect touch 🙂
agree
I’m also his fans for over 30 years, but when it comes to Schubert’s Impromptus, I much preferred Radu Lupo’s playing !
No danger of hyperbole, Sublime!
What a cliché, what a blabla
Have you seen the Schiff video of no 2 and 3?
I’ve had the privilege to be present at Alfred Brendel’s inaugural concert in the UK. To me HE IS the greatest master of the piano.
there's something about Brendel's interpretation of Schubert and it deeply touches listeners' heart. thumbs up. 💚☘
About a million years ago I heard a recital with Brendel playing late Schubert sonatas. It was an odd experience. Mr. Brendel walked on to the stage and was met by a Bosendorfer that seemed to be about 50 feet long. He sat down at the might beast and began to play and as he played the piano disappeared, then Brendel disappeared, and finally the stage and the audience disappeared. Each of us was left utterly alone with the towering genius and the sublime music of little Franz Schubert.
Schubert died at 31 years old only. Imagine how heavenly gifted he was
Yes, was.But who is loved by gods, he is supposed to die young. I am sitting at the city library in Beer Sheva, listening to this genious music, while studying. Wonderful.
Well said
Mozart died aged 35.
Thank the Gods they left us, to kmagine is lovely
Imagine more 31 years living...
I can't imagine. He was one heck of a tune smith
Schubert left more after 31 years' work than than almost anyone else could leave after 31,000 years. I cry when I listen to this beautiful exquisite stuff
Exquisite, heaven.
How blessed I am (82) at having sight and hearing to experience Alfred Brendel, who I saw and heard so many years ago. Christina
I hope you have been blessed enough to also listen to the one and only Artur Rubinstein! I'm too young to ever been able to have attended any of his many concerts! *how sad*
Very difficult to say and judge as a violonist player, but i like it very much !
Fb: Emmanuel Pellaton
So wonderful Christina. ThanK you for sharing
Yes, we take it for granted those things you mention sight ahd hearing. A friend of mine can't hear in one ear and he is 60. Music is my life, I mean it is my distraction, my hobby my world that without hearing I would have no pleasure of enjoying. Beethoven sadly lost his and even though he did he gave us the 9th symphony.
No audience = no coughs = perfect performance !!
Actually, a Bit of coughing, rustling of clothes underlines the Performance. I like it that way.
@@maxfochtmann9576 You're kidding!
I agree!!!
Chopin would have agreed too with that!
And I loved Gould’s humming but the knuckleheads cut it out of the recently issued Goldberg Variations.
_Always loved Sir Alfred Brendel, he was one my go to performers in the mid 1960's when I was just a teenager! GOD bless him, he just turned 90yo a few days ago!_ 😁
Technically, he's not "Sir Alfred" as he's not (as far as I can tell) a British citizen so his KBE is an honourary knighthood.
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Every note is in his hands, on his face, and in his soul. How lucky we are to be alive during his active lifetime.
Brendel's fingers glide over the keyboard, interpreting Schubert with a restrained passion that does not overwhelm the listener and makes you want to hear it again and again.
Daniel Grum at these awful times when we all we hear is Trump, what a treat to retreat to wonderful Brendel and Schubert
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....one of the top 10 living w/ Mitsuko Uchida.... and 8 others, you choose! ; )
Brendel and Schubert ..... its all I need. I hear great symphonies, wonderful opera, dramatic concertos but I always come back to these two to balance and nourish my musical soul.
Bravo.
Agree 💙
And Mozart.
I'm addicted to both. They are great heroes in the world of music.
Jae-young Seo agree
Brendel is one of my favorite pianists
Lorsque je suis fatigué ou lassé de tout, je reviens toujours à ce morceau qui le don de me calmer, de me rendre la sérénité. Merci Schubert et merci à Alfred Brendel
Jean-Bosco Peleket
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I can only marvel at Brendel's interpretation of these four Schubert's impromptus - the precious pearls of classical music.
Brendel can do no wrong for me. I have adored him for years. So fortunate to be alive, able to see him in concerts. Perfection.....I love his playing so much.
Brendel seems to experiencing every note with his whole being. Amazing to watch and to listen to... Beautiful.
Bravo, Brendel! You can always tell when someone loves the music and is not just playing it.
+Linda Karus stimmt! Magnifico!
Linda Karus
Very difficult to say and judge as a violonist player, but i like it very much !
Fb: Emmanuel Pellaton
Well.... that is simply amazing....being able to convey such subtle emotional shifts through the medium of music...who should we thank? Schubert or Brendel....probably.y both!
And bravo Franz!
These four impromptus are wonderful masterpieces and Brendel is best interpreter of Schubert's music. Chapeau!
chapeau claque!
Radu lupu
Thank goodness for Schubert and Alfred Brendel.
I remember when my father played this from a cassette tape player in the car over thirty years ago. Completely staggered me. I have been listening to classical music since.
Titus Tielens my Father did the same. And, 30 years later, I too am still listening. How blessed we were to have fathers who gave us this gift.
Cassette Tape Players are the best. Alle the Pressing, rewinding, Handling the cassetes, pure pleasure. A pity, MC with classical music are difficult to obtain today.
Titus Tielens
Wow, I have exactly the same experience. Father, car casette player, Brendel playing schubert’s impromptus”
Amazing
@@john_mckinney Wow, that is indeed amazing. And Schubert managed to pull this off long after his death.
I bought this disk of Brendel when I was student in 1982. I turned it grey. I tried to play it myself, but it was 35 years later, that I succeeded to play one. I hope that my sun also will play this! He plays now the fast movement of the moonshine donate of Beethoven
Arguably the greatest pianist of my lifetime. This is what it called 'musicality'. The notes are not difficult. That's not the point.
There are no theatrics. The music in his head is merely being translated by his fingers. A miracle, really. But just think of all the hard work that's gone into this phenomenon!
I would not go as far as that. But Brendel is in the tradition of Vienna. Schubert was borne and lived there. Just imagine Vienna at the early 19. Century, the horses and carriages rattling on the pavement, the sounds of nature in the woodland behind the town, Schubert walking in the street, men with high hats and so on. He put into notes, what he perceived around him.
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Check this performance out, if you enjoyed this rendition of Schubert
@@erandolph84 this was lost
I wouldn't go that far, but he is my favorite for the Schubert improptus.
Thank you for making my heart sing Mr Brendel and Mr Schubert, perfectly delicate
Brendel starts to play Schubert, and then the two souls embrace inside the music and you hear only Schubert playing Schubert - poignant and breathtakingly beautiful Schubert.
i once attended a concert of his in oxford.... a small town in england..... somewhere in the early 70 s... he was one of my most favourite pianists in those years... schubert is a sublime melody maker.....
Brendel renders excellently many composers, but his relationship to Schubert is unique !
I love this man. He can really make the piano sing. It resonates so strongly in my heart.
Wish I had heard Brendel live, a great player of Schubert and Beethoven especially. In the mid 1970s my father saw Brendel at an airport in Germany and asked for his autograph. The great pianist obliged and one of my siblings still has that autograph somewhere, quite spidery writing as I recall. My father remembered that Brendel did not have a strong handshake, hardly surprising given that his hands were probably insured for a vast sum and had to be treated with care. The Austrian has lived in London for decades and still gives lectures, as well as being a published author in three languages! The third Impromptu in this set is a particular favourite of mine.
I was lucky enough to see him play twice, both at the BBC Proms: Beethoven's fourth concerto in 1998 and his fifth in 2004, which was Brendel's last live broadcast (so also his last Prom). I'll always remember how humble he seemd while accepting the audience's applause -- he seemed genuinely flattered by it and had something of a look of, "Yes, yes, that's very kind but all I did was play the piano a bit." And then he played the first of the Schubert Drei Klavierücke (D946) as an encore and it was over.
Mr Brendel was born in our town, Zagreb-Croatia, but second world war was making a lot, a lot damage, not only in our souls, but in art and music generaly.
What a joy! Thanks for posting! I’ve nearly worn out my Philips CD of the great Mr Brendel (90 years old as I type!) playing these tremendous pieces, which are among Schubert’s best piano works. Now I get to see him playing them. No. 3 is so beautiful it almost makes me cry.
Präzise und zugleich warmherzige Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Meisterstücke im lyrischen Tempo mit anmütigem Anschlag und sorgfältig kontrollierter Dynamik. Einfach wunderschön!
listen to this performance, and then go find his farewell performance. Time truly refines the wine. He reached a level of excellence even Shubert would be proud of, I am certain. Brendel understood Shubert, as no one else, living or dead.
I'm not that sure about it. I'm very convinced Wilhelm Furtwängler, Gerald Moore or Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had at least an equally profound knowledge of Schubert (not Shubert)! I could also add others like Rubinstein and Wunderlich.
Form the living pianists I even prefer Krystian Zimerman on the 8 Impromptus! This comes closer to Furtwängler's interpretation of Schubert's symphonies! :D
Don't get me wrong I grew up with the interpretation of Schnabel, Edwin Fischer (Brendel's teacher) and Alfred Brendel. They are still excellent. But I always prefered Artur Rubinstein on the few impromptus he recorded! Until Krystian Zimerman's recording completely blew me away! :D
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Brendel is certainly a remarkable Schubert interpreter and wonderful to experience live. But there is a young French pianist who has a different and yet deep empathy for Schubert and that is David Fray. Find him here in youtube. Bliss!
My heart was nearly broken again and again softly and silently in the most comfortable way in these four pieces.
Beautiful pieces, beautifully played. What a treasure to have film of Brendel.
THE authoritative recording of Schubert's Impromptus.
Dear Alfred, I had not known that you are truly inspired. Your memory is excellent, facility is borne of countless personal experiments and repossession of better habits. This impromptu II is fantastic, you have a God given gift. Please pray for us through your music. You are a natural despite what they said. Pax vobiscum +
What a spectacular performance and splendid interpretation of these Four Schubert Impromptus. I just discovered this and will be listening to it many times in the future; it calms my mind and soothes my soul. Alfred Brendel has always been one of my idols who play the piano. I have never listened to a performance of his that I didn't immediately like.
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Magnifique ... Quel talent ! Je pourrais l'écouter des heures sans jamais me lasser . Merci !
brendel is fantastic , the best for interpretation for schubert ,, brendel is like a reincarnation of schubert , a long and beatiful dream ,
Fantastic interpretation. He is an amazing pianist and he shows his emotion at times.
That's how we are! 🤫
I was lucky in two ways relative to these magnificent pieces: I grew up across the street from a talented boy (now my age of 70) who played these Impromptus beginning at age 13 or so. And very well, I might add. And, I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Maestro Brendel after a Carnegie Hall concert about 25 years ago (all Beethoven). The sweetest man you could ever hope to meet--and very tall with enormous hands!
+Barry Mennen My dad knows him too, he's my goto pianist for many recordings.
I grew up listening to Brendel and I still think he’s the best for Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. I’ve played these impromptus and they are masterpieces.
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Omg, thanks for this. I was watching the video and thinking to myself that his hands look huge over that keyboard! Even Horowitz when playing Impromptu no.3 did so with a stretched hand.
I like in this video the opportunity to see clearly a Brendel in action, his playing on the keyboard and his simple demeanor that does not reveal the amazing mastery of his art. Every note he plays seems to be a case of perfect interpretation as perceived by my hearing.
stunning lyrical beauty...........I cannot imagine an interpretation as soulful, elegent,and poetic , as this.
Allegro Molto Moderato 0:10
Allegro 10:05
Andante 14:55
Allegretto 20:50
+Gijsbert X Thank you!!!
+Gijsbert X Gracias!
You are welcome!
Thank you!
you are an awesome person!
That evenness and lightness in the accompaniment of the No 3 is so insanely difficult to achieve, yet it sounds so easy here.
One of my all time favorite pieces heard for piano and one of my favorites to play too.
Having fond memories playing these pieces in my youth. Brendel's rendition is marvelous.
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I love how he doesn't BANG out each fast note. It just sounds beautiful.
Brendel playing Schubert? Pure pleasure...
I remember in the 70s, the budget "Turnabout" label cost little more than a £1 per disc and gave us impoverished students the chance to own the great Brendel's performances of Schubert and Beethoven. Heaven on the cheap!
Thank you Mr Brendel. Most importantly you know we enjoy every minute of it. Just beautiful and wonderful.
Fascinating to watch this performance after the one here by Horowitz. They are totally different from each other. Brendel makes it like a piano version of one of Schubert’s songs. For Horowitz it’s a meditation. Both brilliant.
From Hilo, my thanks for beautiful music. Keep doing it.
The piano is indeed a grand instrument for solos.
May we always hear the MUSIC.
Incredibely happy to be alive right now...
What wonderful music and performance by Alfred Brendel. Allways a favorite 🌹
I'm sure AB would agree that this is one of his finer performances. Thank you for sharing.
🎹 Your compositions are a testament to your musical genius! 🌟 The way you blend different elements and styles is truly remarkable, creating a sonic experience that is both unique and unforgettable. Bravo! 👏🎼
Quoi de mieux que Brendel nous interprétant du Schubert ! La vidéo est exceptionnelle : une seule caméra, un seul angle de prise de vue : on a vraiment l'impression, sauf au dernier, de le voir de sa place, au concert.
My favourite is the one in A flat major. He has perfect weighting between the hands and his right hand ripples along as if what he is playing has just come into his head. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
There is no better interpreter of Schubert's piano works.
As not a particularly big fan of classical music I keep coming back to these pieces and Sir Brendel's delivery. Truly awe inspiring. Stunning.
OMG - one of my favorite piano pieced played by one of my favorite pianists - takes you to another level of being - if you are not too heavy to be uplifted :)
This is the music I love most , ever since I first heard it , played by this genius
I love watching him play as he reminds me of my childhood piano teacher.
Là où certains interprètes surjouent Schubert pour épater la galerie (Zimerman), Brendel est d'une incroyable intégrité dans son jeu : chaque note, chaque nuance, chaque difficultés est abordé avec une pureté totale qui crée une émotion profonde. Brendel vit ses Impromptus de toute son âme avec un toucher subtil et sans cesse bouleversant. C'est non seulement la meilleure version de ses oeuvres célèbres mais encore un sommet de toute l'histoire de la musique. Merci pour ces trésors fabuleux.
So beautiful.. thank you, Mr. Brendel.
Amazing performance by Brendel, l learned to play only the first 4 pages of no. 3 divine masterpiece and it worth my efforts...
Its so beautiful to watch and listen to him play. the music is ecstatic and divine !
My kind of people in this comment section. If only the world was a reflection of this love we have for the beauty of this music.
Gorgeous !!!
Great performance. .............
He allows the musical message to breathe in each phrase; no rushing on in mere pianism.
I hear a master like Maestro Brendel and I say to myself, "Stick with singing David; you cannot
compete with people like him. "
Like a bouquet of notes flowing effortlessly from his hands.
Nummer vier ist für mich der schönste dieser Serie!!!❤❤❤
Priceless ~ Thank you!☀️
이 분의 연주는 정갈함 그 자체다.
All those modulations.......heavenly
Einer der wenigen die den wunderschönen Bass herausarbeiten beim zweiten Impromptus!
Such a perfect interpretation of the four pieces! Although I like other interpretations in parts more (e.g., from Arrau #1 or #2 from Richter) this recording is truly a treasure. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you this video was such a gift timeless music by a Viennese composer played by a most gifted Viennese pianist and the camera work was wonderful as well
such a delicate touch!
Both sets of four Schubert Impromptus are magnificent.
Brendel too.
Very light touch!!!! Impressive... his fingers almost fly over the piano!
So beautiful. when i hear most other performances of this, I can't understand why its so popular. Brendel however makes me feel so many emotions and keeps me hooked. I think I want to learn how to play this now!
bravo!! wonderful technique.. very moving..
Beautiful! What a privilege to just watch this performance at the click of a button. As Blur said in the 90's, modern life *is* rubbish. But this is one of the perks. Thanks for bringing this astonishingly beautiful work of art of my front room.
With pleasure.
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I was taken as a child to a concert in which Dame Myra Hess played the E flat major impromptu as an encore to the Grieg Piano Concerto but it wasn't until I heard Alfred Brendel play it that I realised you really can hear every single note just as Schubert would have wanted it. What a pleasure to be so transported.
Best Pianist around hands down
He's a really fabulous interpreter!!
This isn't "Brendel" playing. It's Schubert.
My god, what an amazing musician, Mr. Brendel
Well Edwin Fischer told Brendel in the 1950s that he had played Schubert’s D959 as though Schubert were his uncle.
C est magnifique. Quel jeu élégant, je le trouve particulièrement inspiré dans les parties expressives.
Quelle douceur dans le troisieme impromptu !!
I've seen him live once - nobody plays Schubert as sensitively as he does, but without sentimentality.
What about Khatia Buniatishvili? And what do you mean: without sentimentality?
@@henningandersen9027 he is playing schubert like schubert, not like Schumann. Khatia can‘t play schubert well
So beautiful................Thanks so much.
Schubert est sublime, cette interprétation par Brendel également !
Heaven on Earth! Thank you for this great pleasure!
Excellent clarity. I really like how delicate he is with the pedal.
He and Richter both treat Schubert and Schumann similarly, when regard to pedaling. (I prepared the concert pianos for some of Brendel's recitals.)
If Schubert had not died at 31 but lived to be 80, he would be the greatest composer, easily.
Deeply tragic - too many unsuitable women and then mercury compounds trying to cure the result.
Yes I agree, my father told me...
Perhaps he was really meant to be among the angels.
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Do angels play the piano ?
@@tedgrant2 Don't know. Why don't you ask them?
To Master any musical instrument is a good plan in ones lifestyle so well done Alfred!
I agree..it’s a shame we kind of live in a culture that idolises child prodigies and fame which stops people from taking that wonderful journey through life
Grandissimo interprete! Chapeau.
A Brendel est un maître et Schubert un des compositeurs qu'il interprète au plus près de la perfection......
Re: 3 - the one that hits it better than any I've heard so far - Brendel was something else.