Artur Schnabel: the true spirit of Beethoven
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Rob Cowan listens to Artur Schnabel's legendary recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas and wonders if this is the closest we will get to hearing the way that Beethoven himself would have played these works.
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I am convinced, that we - through Schnabel - hear some of Beethovens praxis. Schnabel was, after all, 4th generation after Beethoven.
Great video in all aspects! Some years ago I purchased one original 78 rpm record album with his interpretation of Beethoven's 3red piano concerto: masterful performance! It's under Malcolm Sargent's conducting. It was recommended by Nagib Elchmer in his contribution to the first number of CASA E JARDIM magazine, the Brazilian correspondent to the American BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS.
Horowitz and others say that Schnabel's technique was quite bulletproof back in the 20s, before he started making these recordings.
LOVE LOVE LOVE your explanation. Totally understand and identifies and the most wonderful: you are jumping out of your heart and this is a present from god ENTHUSIASM
Thank you for putting another layer in the enjoyment of Beethoven
David
Excellent. It makes me want to back to the Schnabel's I have in my collection. On a biographical note - how were you listening to Schnabel while walking on Hampstead Heath back then? an early walkman? !
Good question spitfirepilot (as an ex-aircaft nut - who used to see spitfire trainers fly regularly from Hendon - I love the name). I should have said. I had a Zenith mini-transistor radio on me and got lucky with the Third Programme's afternoon planning. The sound was tinny but because the recording was old it didn't really matter. Best, and thanks so much for responding. Rob.
@@robcowanmusic1962 thanks so much for the video. Schnabel and the conductor Furtwangler were the favourites of a dear friend of mine whose opinion on music I really respected. Do you know if there are any pianists around these days similar to Schnabel. The reason I ask is that i was recently at the proms and say Andres Schiff play and wondered was he of the same ilk as Schnabel.
I own Schnabel's Beethoven sonata cycle on the Naxos label and many other complete cycles by other pianists.
I know he was the first to record a complete cycle of the sonatas and that some still regard Schnabel's cycle as the best ever recorded. I have to disagree with that assessment, while it's true that his playing of some of the slow movements are very powerful emotionally (Schnabel: the notes I handle as well as most, it's the spaces inbetween I excel at) his playing of some of the fast movements of the later sonatos is sloppy, the runs are slurred and the articulation ragged plus there's a few bum notes.
One of my favorite Beethoven cycles is Wilhelm Kempff's (his 1950's cycle).
As for my favorite interpretations of some of the later sonatos, there's no contest here, Sviatoslav Richter, the greatest pianist of the 20th century, goes to the head of the pack. Richter' plays some of the late Beethoven sonatos as if his life depends on it, his playing takes my breath away.
I'd agree with your recommendations Landon but the observation 'the notes I handle as well as most, it's the spaces in between I excel at' is especially apposite. I too have many cycle/individual recordings (including the ones you mention) and additionally admire Richard Goode, Claude Frank, Yves Nat, Brendel, Arrau, Gilels and many others. Best. Rob.
richter in leipzig. op 109-111
@@markito3311 Own it!!
Best,
Landon
Agreed. There are wonderful moments of insight, but apart from the wrong notes (which are perhaps not so important) is the garbled rushing of many movements, with too much skating over details. Yes, his slow movements are the best moments. Let's not pretend that there have been many many, better, equally insightful and musical Beethoven cycles since. Stand-out sonatas (from Schnabel) for me would include op 31/1 in G major, the Waldstein and Les Adieux. But claiming Schnabel 'has a hotline to Beethoven' is merely fanciful and unprovable!
Yes, Richter is incredible.
David Hurwitz has taken this format from you and done it much much better. For one David doesn't look like he's in a hostage video. Also love how the American rips your publication, you are truly inscrutable.
This is a strong presentation. Hurwitz's videos may be to your taste, but others might prefer this. All the best.
Yeah-- but Hurwitz is obnoxious and much too confident of what he thinks he knows.
Although I 'm following Hurwitz, I regret Cowan is not uploading wonderful videos like this one, deeper and insightful ones.
Hurwitz his taste is so awful bad! Hurwitz loves the second-rated pianists like Peter Donohoe( most boring ever! Hurwitz claiming Donohoe's Brahms piano concerto no 1 is the best!) Krystian Zimeman( robot with colorless tone!) Rudolph Serkin Tamas Vasary Boris Berezhovsky Ivan Moravec Uchida and so on! Hurwitz should play the greatest like Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Grigory Sokolov Sviatoslav Richter!
@@RaineriHakkarainen Pollini? Richter? they are overrated ah