Thank you very much! Pfitzner is an excellent composer! I played his Cello Concerto, and aI really enjoyed his music. His piano music is also fabulous, thank you for opportunity to listen to it!
Alex Ross described Pfitzner's late music as "Carl Maria von Weber in a shopping mall". To an extent this is true. The first etude is magic, the rest are duds. Pontinen's lackluster performance doesn't help. It helps to remember that the violin concerto and huge swaths of "Palestrina" are glorious.
I do not buy your intro : Pfitzner was one of the only 4 composers listed in the "special listed artists" (along with Strauss, Orff and Egk) ; apart from this infamous mark, his music is dull and unimaginative, so there is no need to exhume it !
For historical information: Pfitzner was listed in Hitler's and Goebbels's special list of the "indispensable musicians" together with Strauss and Furtwängler. Orff and Egk were listed in the ordinary "Gottbegnadeten-Liste" together with 14 other composers. And before you call Pfitzner's music "dull" and "unimaginative" you should sit down and listen more carefully!
@@norbertflorianschuck9300 No ; only 4 composers in the special list section (wikipedia) ; you can also read : Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits by Michael H. Kater (Author), where the cases of Strauss and Pfitzner are more deeply discussed than what we can do here
Thank you very much! Pfitzner is an excellent composer! I played his Cello Concerto, and aI really enjoyed his music. His piano music is also fabulous, thank you for opportunity to listen to it!
Eine tolle Entdeckung, vielen Dank fürs Hochladen!
Pfitzner everytime had something special to say, in this piano miniatures not less than in in his bigger works.
Beautiful music. Thank you.
Grossartig gespielt!
Es gibt noch glänzende Pianisten, die sich für gute unbekannte Werke einsetzen. Denen gehörten höchste Preise!
Excellent!
Love the trills one especially.
These are dated 1942. I thought it was interesting to look through the Wikipedia entry for that year while listening - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942
Awesome
10:17 is like Beethovens first piano Sonata!! An like someone else said the last one is like Op 126 Bagatelle.
The last etude could be a Bagatelle of Beethoven's Op. 126
Alex Ross described Pfitzner's late music as "Carl Maria von Weber in a shopping mall". To an extent this is true. The first etude is magic, the rest are duds. Pontinen's lackluster performance doesn't help. It helps to remember that the violin concerto and huge swaths of "Palestrina" are glorious.
Well I prefer Astrazeneca
I do not buy your intro : Pfitzner was one of the only 4 composers listed in the "special listed artists" (along with Strauss, Orff and Egk) ; apart from this infamous mark, his music is dull and unimaginative, so there is no need to exhume it !
It seems to me that his music fell into obscurity due to politics, not quality. His writing is eloquent, clear, and gorgeous.
@@ninjaassassin27 very old fashioned ; but printing from Schott is pleasant, I should admit
@@deodatdechampignac I suppose you reject neoclassicism as a whole then. A folly, seldom constrained, often introspective.
For historical information: Pfitzner was listed in Hitler's and Goebbels's special list of the "indispensable musicians" together with Strauss and Furtwängler. Orff and Egk were listed in the ordinary "Gottbegnadeten-Liste" together with 14 other composers.
And before you call Pfitzner's music "dull" and "unimaginative" you should sit down and listen more carefully!
@@norbertflorianschuck9300 No ; only 4 composers in the special list section (wikipedia) ; you can also read : Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits by Michael H. Kater (Author), where the cases of Strauss and Pfitzner are more deeply discussed than what we can do here