This amazing woman and musician lived lived in my community in the North Carolina mountains after she retired. The few times we met, mostly at chamber orchestra concerts in which i performed as a high school student, she gave me great inspiration to follow my dreams as a musician. I shall always feel blessed to have been touched by her.
I grew up with her recording, a 10" LP of this. Superlative, and I am amazed to find this video here. Her recorded version was played a bit more straight than this one.
Simplement admirable. Un caractère, une fougue incroyables, une énorme bouffée d'air montagnard... superbe ! Et n'ayons pas peur de la puissance avec laquelle elle attaque son clavier. Il fallait oser, c'est très bien. Je trouve que Lily Kraus est à Bartok ce qu'Alicia de Larrocha est à Granados.
Utterly enchanting. NIce melodies. Had a similar feel and sound to them as some of Liszt's melodies and a few I've heard from Brahms. Must be the Hungarian character I'm hearing. I like it.
This interpretation is probably as close as it gets to the real Bartok...Kraus had studied with the composer in the 1920s, and the "spiky" rhythms, accents, etc. are characteristic of the folk dances and melodies that Bartok knew and researched (he was an ethnomusicologist as well as a composer and pianist)
This amazing woman and musician lived lived in my community in the North Carolina mountains after she retired. The few times we met, mostly at chamber orchestra concerts in which i performed as a high school student, she gave me great inspiration to follow my dreams as a musician. I shall always feel blessed to have been touched by her.
Meticulous, rich detail...and such a pleasure to WATCH...an aural AND visual command performance...Brava!
This amazing woman and musician lived lived in my community in the North Carolina mountains after she retired. The few times we met, mostly at chamber orchestra concerts in which i performed as a high school student, she gave me great inspiration to follow my dreams as a musician. I shall always feel blessed to have been touched by her.
Hello,
thank you very much for this beautidul music !
Best wishes !
Mr Bourquin
WONDERFUL!
She focusses on the SOUND of each note!
This is great Art!
This document is a TREASURE!
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
INCREDIBLE! what a TONAL BEAUTY with such SHARP feel for the subtlest of degrees of expressive nuance...whew!
Wow, Lili Kraus knew how to play Bartok. Thanks for posting and have added this to my favourites.
it's amazing..the expression, the sound, the passion..everything. i admire her
One of the 20th century's greatest pianists.
What a gem. Thank you for posting!
Una interpretación maravillosa, llena de conocimiento y exquisita sensibilidad. ¡Bravo!
Bravo!!!
Magnifique interprétation de caractère!
Wonderful!
I grew up with her recording, a 10" LP of this. Superlative, and I am amazed to find this video here. Her recorded version was played a bit more straight than this one.
Magic
Simplement admirable. Un caractère, une fougue incroyables, une énorme bouffée d'air montagnard... superbe ! Et n'ayons pas peur de la puissance avec laquelle elle attaque son clavier. Il fallait oser, c'est très bien.
Je trouve que Lily Kraus est à Bartok ce qu'Alicia de Larrocha est à Granados.
Utterly enchanting. NIce melodies. Had a similar feel and sound to them as some of Liszt's melodies and a few I've heard from Brahms. Must be the Hungarian character I'm hearing. I like it.
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This interpretation is probably as close as it gets to the real Bartok...Kraus had studied with the composer in the 1920s, and the "spiky" rhythms, accents, etc. are characteristic of the folk dances and melodies that Bartok knew and researched (he was an ethnomusicologist as well as a composer and pianist)
World fusion way before the invention of the term!
why did she cross her hands at 3:20?
3.22 because you have to play the notes as indicated.
A lot of rubato! The version Im used of it is quite straightforward and plain, but this is very expressive...
1:31!
To call this playing authoritative sounds bland.I wonder if Bartok heard her play this.
hmm, think it´s also here a bit overdone and exaggerated.
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...her aggressive approach is not notated by Bartok on the score.... unnecessary ......
This amazing woman and musician lived lived in my community in the North Carolina mountains after she retired. The few times we met, mostly at chamber orchestra concerts in which i performed as a high school student, she gave me great inspiration to follow my dreams as a musician. I shall always feel blessed to have been touched by her.