It wouldn't be difficult to give things a little adjustment in a video editing software to make sound and picture sync.

Excelente, pero con un audio de la chingada 😮

Superb pianist and clearly on top of his baroque trills…BUT…I do believe this is one of those fewpieces that actually benefit from less phrasing and a very mechanical and metronomic attack of the keys (think Gould, Solokov, etc.). Here, the tempo gets a tad bit loose and ‘over-romanticised’ at times and it doesn’t serve this particular piece in my humble opinion. My comment is purely based on my personal and subjective understanding of the piece and it takes nothing away from his obvious skills and mastering of the piece.

Danke ❤

So many sections are played as if it was one of Bach’s fugues. I remember writing an essay stating that Bach arguably was the first jazzman ever, that Keith Jarrett was certainly the most baroque of all jazzmen and that Samson Francois certainly was the most perfect and organic link between those two…I still stand by this statement 20+ years later. 🤷‍♂️

Musique sublime ,magnifiquement interprétée !!!! En outre ,excellente mise en scène .... contrairement à de nombreuses du siècle actuel , trop souvent complètement " déjantées " ( même à Bayreuth ...et pas seulement ...!!!!! ) ....

Un des seuls interprètes qui respecte le fait que Chopin a écrit "p" et "mezzo voce" pour les deux tiers de la Ballade. L’exaltation ne monte que petit à petit et générée par la musique, jamais arbitrairement. Bien sûr, cette interprétation souffre d'une prise de son qui raccourcit le son.

After him, can we still dare to play Chopin ?

指をねせたこんな演奏法は見た事ありません。天才だからなせる技？私はピアノはやらないので分かりませんが。それにしても彼の演奏、リズムの揺らぎは心地好いです。

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Danke,

Enregistrement 1958 ❤

Merci

Cette fin avec ce lyrism, ce legato et phrasé... Quelle belle découverte que M. Samson est à l'aube de mes 30 ans.

Les barrières sautent grâce à lui. 🙏🕺💃🏿🤲🏾👍🌿🙌👏👏🏿🤍

I saw Hans Hotter years ago taking a masterclass at the Edinburgh Festival, just wonderful, and now to find this….heavenly episode in my Thomas Quasthoff journey. Thankyou so much.

Quel interprète... Il sait captiver

Samson Francois provides a marvelous heavenly communion with Chopin; a lesson that many "famous" pianists nowadays could benefit from his live recordings.💖💖💖

It brought tears to my eyes to see this! I still have his voice resounding in my ears and heart! He worked with me like this on Wagner arias and Schwanengesang. It was one of the great privileges of my life!! Thank you for posting this! ❤️❤️

Still a very loud and ringing voice! And he burst out in song at one place. I love his glasses as well, when I get glasses I want to have that model! Does anyone know the model?

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Always loved seriousness in music. Think I found a new level of it in this video.

フランソワのバラード４番大好きです。

My goodness! Listen to Hans Hotter! I'm in Amsterdam after two Gurre-Lieder concerts conducted by Chailly. Robert Holl was the narrator but so disappointing, though he was a very good singer. (Let's forget the disastrous Schager for now.) But listen to Hotter, who is teaching us that Music is beyond life and death!!

Nicely sung and acted. The first time i ever saw Wotan carry Brunny! Instead of a patch they gave him a black eye!

1965 and the French still thought that an opera set should be the same for Wagner as for a classic theatre play by Jean Giroudoux or Racine!! The setting could not be more inappropriate if it tried. Oh perhaps it was trying? The singers deserved something better than this gimcrack minimalist setting

スカルボなんでしょ？😂

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habe hotter zigmal erlebt, von der prinzezeit bis jahre darauf nationaltheater und liederabende--dieser mann ist bzw. war grosse klasse.

Merveilleux... Je suis infiniment touché...

I find the temp too fast for m y taste.

Une expression me vient en tête en écoutant les propos de cet Homme-Artiste accompli : "intelligence du coeur". Il faut aussi mentionner la grande psychologie inhérente au travail d'écriture de Wagner, de conception de ses personnages, le tout "assorti" de phrasés et de couleurs musicales infiniment complexes et évolutifs... L'oeuvre de Wagner exige le meilleur à tous points de vue.

To see a man my father's age, performing at this high level ... this is among the most beautiful treasures of human art ever ... to think that Hans Hotter, one of the most beautiful voices of the 20th century, STILL REMAINED SO almost to the end, in the midst of the art that he loved so much ... this man who resisted Nazism in his own way to continue to affirm LIFE, continuing to affirm it to the long, glorious sunset of his own years ... THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!

The musical colors, balance, voicing, and lyricism from Francois hands are worth their weight in gold!

Il expose exactement le dilemme du Paradoxe sur le comédien de Diderot. L'exact opposé des thèses de Stanislavski qui dominent aujourd'hui au théâtre et au cinéma.

Quel génie ce type ! Il ne fait qu'un avec son piano. On oublie la partition au demeurant difficile, et on écoute cet ange qui vole au dessus de nous.

I love Hand Hotter but doesn’t really to be singing. Was he miming to a prerecorded soundtrack?? Now if the woman were to open her mouth and Birgit Nilsson’s voice came then I’d it was prerecorded!!

I love Hand Hotter but doesn’t really to be singing. Was he miming to a prerecorded soundtrack?? Now if the woman were to open her mouth and Birgit Nilsson’s voice came then I’d it was prerecorded!!

The voice and the presence of a true god

Wonderful. But I wish there was sound in the right channel also.

What am I hearing? This guy is Wotan playing himself!

Sounds better than in the recording of the same period - less asthmatic.

Absolutely glorious. Wow. It's late for me so I'll be back. Wow. Mil gracias!

Everything in this performance is true drama, as Wagner would have wanted it I believe: the action, the lighting, the simple setting - a pity there are no rocks, no semblance of fire etc. - and of course Hotter's magnificent voice. The best and most moving footage I've seen of Wotans Abschied. Both truly look their part. The James Morris production is better costume/setting wise but his voice doesn't come close.

Hotter ranks alongside London, Stewart and Morris as one of the great Wagnerian bass/baritones.

I don´t know who´s idea this was, some agent or Hochschule head of Lied program or whatever, but this is a really invaluable document. Thank you.

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这么多肖邦演绎中，最喜欢他的诠释，高雅诗意自由又非常有说服力的音乐直抵人心啊！此曲只应天上有，人间能得几回闻

#BOTD in 1909 🌹🌹🌹