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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... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Alfred Brendel: 1968-2001
RecommendedPreviously Unpublished Live and Radio Performances
Alfred Brendel (piano)
It would be foolish of a reviewer either to celebrate the oddness of these performances, or berate them for being perverse. They are the product of a searching and unquestionably 'interesting'... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Alfred Brendel plays Haydn & Mozart
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner & Sir Charles Mackerras
Haydn is given his own voice. You cannot expect anything less from Alfred Brendel who rarely fails to make you listen, think and feel - as indeed he does. An elite musician. — More…
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Alfred Brendel plays Liszt & Schumann
Alfred Brendel (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Liszt's Sonata is seen to have 'an enlarged field of tension' and here is a performance that, from a tension of expectancy in the dragged notes of the opening bars to the tensions of the bravura... — More…
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