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Alfred Brendel plays Schubert
Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate...
Alfred Brendel plays Schubert
Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Awards:
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate...
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- Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Recorded: 1984-08
- Recording Venue: Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
- Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Recorded: 1984-08
- Recording Venue: Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
- Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Recorded: 1998-09
- Recording Venue: Alte Oper, Frankfurt/M.
- Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Recorded: 1999-06
- Recording Venue: "The Maltings", Concert Hall, Snape
- Alfred Brendel (piano)
- Recorded: 1997-06
- Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London
Awards and reviews
March 2006
Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate to one another. Weaknesses fall by the wayside. Not, though, the melancholic songfulness that is an indisputable part of Schubert. It is heard in, say, the B major Trio or the slow movement of D960, but shorn of the lachrymose bleating that some pianists think necessary.
