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After watching all your series of this documental I can only say THANKS. I cannot stop crying. This was a wonderful explanation of one of the greatest composers ever (for me the best). I wish I could watch them before, but never is too late. How you put all the separated musicians together to play,... incredible. I wish he could live for many more years, imagine what he could do if he lived a longer life. Thanks Per for the best documentary on schubert but also about the story of Music in early XIX!

I really loved all your videos about Schubert and how you are explaining every single detail not only from his personal biography but also about the historical context and the music. I strongly believe that Schubert is the most underrated composer of the History of Music, even his operas are incredibly amazing - Sakontala (the unfinished), Alfonso und Estrella... all the lieders... I remember the story about his friend in prision. I also have the think that at the end his character or personality was very special and concrete but I don´t believe that he was only a composer for small circles, since he wrote operas and big symphonies that are of course done for bigger scenarios.

outro hits hard

Franz Schubert, for me, is the greatest composer of all music. Being able to write those songs, song cycles, string pieces, last two symphonies and wonderful amount of amazing solo piano music is so unreal. He had the most natural creative ability, he wasn't as trained as Bruckner, Brahms, Mozart and Mendelssohn. He knew how to do anything, he was born to be composer of many areas of music, not just tunes.

I would give my front teeth to see this live

Wonderful documentary. And wonderful performances. Thankyou.

Excellent presentation and beautiful piano playing!

True beauty, this 3 part documentary on Franz Schubert. His music speaks for all. Congratulations, Per Tengstrand, and contributing players!

It’s actually in B flat minor 😊

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The section on Caroline 19:30 deserves special mention. Very moving.

This was planned, probably written like a libretto.

It’s interesting how many composers had extensive legal training (such as Tchaikovsky).

Bravo! I note that you begin the trills in the piano trio movement on the upper note, while your colleagues do not. You are right, of course; and I wonder what arguments the three of you may have had on this little matter.

I am native from Mallorca and currently live in Dublin, thank you so much for this video, it has bred new light in my love for my home island as I will be thankfully returning in the following days.

I'm so grateful that you uploaded these videos on Schubert's life and music. I'm starting a new project with my string quartet where we provide guided mini concerts where we try to show emotions / stories using excerpts of music and Schubert's Death and The Maiden is one of our pieces. You inspired me because your work proves that understanding the context of the piece helps us appreciate it and connect to it more. That's what happened to me when I listened to yours and your wife performance at the end of part II. That's really great. Thank you and greetings from Amsterdam.

Bravo Bravo Bravo. To put together those performances from musicians far apart from each other is just unbelievable. These videos are a masterpiece. Every lover of the music of Schubert (and who isn’t?) should watch them. Thank you so much again.

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I remember Van Cimburg(sp) well it was a great sensation. Because his teachers were from the old Russian school of piano thats why Moscow loved him

These were really useful, thank you. Is your video on the thumb forthcoming?

Wonderful series. Just immensely enjoyed your Schubert films. Do you have an opinion on the idea of the 2nd finger as the center of the hand, leading to a somewhat sideways hand with the thumb pointing forward (I think from Chopin)?

a little back story: the judges went to khrushchev to ask if they could give van cliburn the 1st prize. 'was he the best?' the premier asked. they said yes. 'give him the prize then'

Thank you.Theres such depth in Schubert’s music.Deep emotions that are displayed,and yet hidden.This seems to me that Schubert was introverted as well as outgoing.He hid much of his emotions-How sad was that private suffering that he must have endured alone,yet partly showed in much of his latter compositions. Always beautiful 🕊

The art of feeling 💜🫶🕊

Throughout my life I’ve been in awe of Franz Schubert.My sister would sing his songs to me and I was enchanted. I’ve become devoted to Schubert,as I am with Beethoven. I cannot imagine what I might have missed had I not had that introduction so young☺️

I've listened to this so much since 2008 that the orchestra version sounds wrong and seems lacking

Love this! Thank you for sharing music and the love of music with us! ❤

Thank you for this wonderful work.

congratulations to your experiment with the asynchronous recording & mixing! This is so difficult, but you and the wonderful young artists mastered it perfectly, thank you all so much!

Such a marvellous doku about one of my favorite composers! And such a heavily underrated channel, what a shame! Thank you so much!

Both illuminating and, in its way, quite moving; thank you!

I want to watch part 2 but cannot find it?

Salut d’amour

Tchaikovsky was not fluent in English at the age of six. He even struggled with that language as an adult.

Thank you.

Today I had my first transcendental experience of 2024. It was the hearing of Schubert's 9th symphony. What a steady orgasm of tonality!!! (at my 81 years such orgasm is within reach, ha ha). What an ecstasy following the spirit of Schubert in his tempos, modulations, harmonic progressions that endlessly succeed each other. This, I think, is the symphony that should raise and shine together with the other 9th, the Great and the Choral together on the top pedestal. Hearing this, further removes in me any association of Schubert's life with tragedy. How can there be tragedy in an individual who came in possession of one of the greatest spiritual wonders of the world? How can the sole individual work of a person create such a work of art? This is a transcendental question of which we fortunately have proof.

I would very much appreciated it and grateful if you do more of Schubert series ❤❤❤❤

Thank you. I enjoyed the three works in this episode. I have the same recording of the Unfinished Symphony which is very good. In one personal oddity, I don't perceive tragedy in music that is beautiful, be it Chopin's Funeral March or in Tchaikovsky's Pathetique or in Schubert's Unfinished or in any of his Lieders or other works. His last symphonies have such incredible richness that they keep the brain's musical center totally engaged. For me, "Unfinished" simply means that there is not more of it. Happiness is in all of Schubert's work, and tragedy is a human perception.

Thank you. I cannot follow the story of Schubert's life without becoming extremely emotional. I much enjoyed the two compositions played masterfully with beautiful tone on the Shihuru Kawai. The Impromptu No. 2 op 90 I like it played a little more suave, it is not a Liszt virtuosity transcription, but I understand that it has become a concert piece, and so it has to bring out virtuosity.

Extraordinary! Franz Schubert has been one of my favorite composers for most of my 80 years. After a lifelong appreciation of most of his Lieder and piano compositions, in the last decade I started to pay more attention to his chamber music and symphonies, and I concluded that he is second to no other classical composer. In fact, he deserves first place together with Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and a few others ( at this level there is no order ). I have to thank Mr. Tengstrand for his interpretation of the 3d Impromptu Op. 90 as... a Lied !! Of course, it is pure lyricism, but I had never heard it like this. I will start to play it at a faster tempo and bring out the singing like he does. It is part of the Celestial music that Shubert was destined to bring down to us. I am also thankful for the excellent performance of Schubert's Ständchen, of which I didn't know that Liszt had put his rushing fingers into. I like its first part, where the piano replaces an uncertain voice, but I can do without the later ornamentations, ha ha. I will get the score, and now play its first part without having to sing to it.

I am delighted to have found this video three years late - thank you algorithm! Per I saw you play years ago at Scandinavia House in NYC and still have the copy of your CD I purchased at that time, "Me and My Steinway." This is a happy coincidence. I am a late-in-life piano student so I am looking forward to checking out your other videos. Cheers from New Hampshire!

Great Work and very interesting. Bravo

Great class! I just discovered this channel, and what a treasure it is! Unfortunately, it seems a bit underrated. I have a suggestion: could you create some videos discussing classical music? You appear to have a wealth of knowledge, and it would be fantastic to hear your insights on some classical pieces. Keep up the excellent work! Greetings from Brazil.

His piano is out of tune. It's very flat. Maybe he's factoring in future instrument idiosyncrasies.

I bet there were a lot of husbands in 1957 who were wishing they could change the channel and watch a wrestling match.

If he had a big grey/white mustache, he would kind of look like my grandfather.

*I've never heard Stravinsky speak before. His accent to me sounds more German than Russian. Or is it my imagination?*