10 pianists in comparison - Schubert/Liszt - Ständchen (1942-2009)

[@hoihoover929]

My favorite piece of Schubert when I was three or four. Eighty years later, It is still my beloved piece with a lot of memories...

[@takeuchi5760]

80 years?! That seems like a crazy long time too to me when I'm 17, I often wonder what listening to these pieces will feel like when I'm older.

[@matlig885]

@@takeuchi5760 j' en ai 42 et cette musique m' émeut toujours autant depuis que je suis petit.

[@danstanoiu1925]

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[@walterramirobeckmannvaca3309]

so nice to hear how you enjoy after all these years this beautiful moments

[@simmo303]

But then it's easy to hear another Schubert piece and find that the favourite. No wonder Liszt regarded Schubert as the most lyrical of all composers.

[@LaurentPingaultLyon]

Rachmaninov playing Schubert/Lizst ! What a treat !

[@michaeleickermann1706]

All of them play marvelous but Horowitz really touches my heart. Many years after his death, his widow was asked in an interview which music piece she would wants him to play at this moment. She answered without thinking a second : "The Serenade!"

[@pierrefoul5960]

Vous faites un choix de race

[@robertnisonoff3907]

Interesting. His was my least favorite interpretation. Devoid of the subtlety and nuance that some of the others brought to the piece.

[@toomuchrose]

@@robertnisonoff3907But his interpretation is much closer to the original tempo of the actual song. All the others drag the melody like a dirge. The song is love song, a serenade, not a funeral march.

[@robertnisonoff3907]

Disagree with your analysis. A love song and a serenade especially must convey the yearning one feels with that type of emotion. Hohowitz never had the sensisitivity to understand or convey that emotion. He only knows how to play through it. @@toomuchrose

[@toomuchrose]

@@robertnisonoff3907I disagree with you. Listen to the original song and then listen to Horowitz. The tempo should not be dragged out to the ends of the earth. This is not how to convey the emotion that Schubert intended. Almost all pianists these days think that playing everything very slowly somehow equates to conveying emotion when in actual fact all it conveys is sickly sentimentality, rather like Lennie Bernstein's treatment of Mahler in which he pulls the music down into funereal pace with his staggeringly slow tempos. Mind you, he did that with just about everything.

[@terrybarlow2445]

Rachmaninoff walked to the window as his student sat down to the piano. Outside were the mimosas lining the Parisienne boulevard. "Play that, play the gold, " he requested. "Show me how," she responded. And he sat and proceeded to play the color. She never forgot. A child can imitate anything.

[@sushilkumarsaraf4399]

It's the most favourite piece of mine from the Western Classicals. The music transports to a different realm altogether; melancholic, nostalgic, yearning, peace. Watery pearls flow from the eyes every time I listen to it reminding me of the beloved better half I lost not so long ago and of the some of the most sweetest and memorable times spent together that we were for forty years. Intend to use it as background music in the video that I plan to make on her. This music acts as lullaby making me go to sleep at night with sweet memories, yearning and teary eyes. Prefer Katias interpretation and her interplay of fingers on the key board. Though all have played well.

[@sushilkumarsaraf4399]

@Moy Thank you. We could be in touch.

[@ayhancelebi4226]

Beray Çelebi Said to: I totally agree with you ....Let's meet good music.

[@stefanufer608]

Horowitz’s realisation of the “echo effect” section is unsurpassed - as if a third hand we’re playing the top line.

[@mrl2259]

I agree at 200 % !!!

[@Yue117]

His rendition of this piece is emotionally mindblowing. The colors he brings. His use of the pedal, the clearness, the dynamics. It makes it particularly unique.

[@nelietadiguangco4258]

Couldn’t agree more

[@Deeznutsmynamejeff21]

to play like this at 86 and be dead months later is remarkable

[@andrewharrison8975]

I quite agree; the ‘echo’ is a bit naughty, but very nice- a little ‘Godowskian’; but I have to fall on the side of Rachmaninov in the end, even tho’ his rubato teeters on parody.

[@whatisitq]

In my middle school, our music teacher taught us the song version in Korean. We had to sing it dutifully without any sentiment of a lover's yearning because romance is prohibited when you are underage. It always brings a smile when I remember those days of jumping ropes and singing this song. All are very beautiful and I like Horowitz the best.

[@elisabethpierart]

merci, merci, c'est un vrai bonheur d'écouter ces différentes interprétations!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Are there other songs that are more melancholy and sorrowful than this song？ My heart aches as I think of this great composer who died at the age of ３１．This song strongly shakes the human soul.

[@jannisopel]

"Tod und das Mädchen" Schubert. Schubert made a lot of those.

[@kishorebajaj4353]

I feel just the way u do. I thank Providence that I was born after Schubert so that I can live to Xpress my love for his muzik.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

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[@auroracruz6490]

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[@photo161]

Thank you for this wonderful compilation. It is so rich an experience to be able to listen to these many many outstanding performances of such a superbly pianistic transcription, Listz at his most persuasive, and Schubert...well, there are no words. The two performances I found to be the most beautiful, and by a significant degree, were those by Horowitz and Rachmaninoff.

[@Ernesto7608]

After hearing 9 beautiful interpretations it is understandable that Rachmaninoff's is the last. It is HORRIBLE.

[@vladdegs]

On balance, the Horowitz I think. What a pianist, what a musician. No one quite like him and seemed to get better with age!

[@pierrefoul5960]

Chapman 🕎 Horowitz 🕎un peu facile

[@kaushikray1041]

What music,! It dissolves all tension and stress. Wirklich erstaunlich ! Wunderschön!

[@chanl54]

What a memorable collection of superb performances of this intimate Schubert piece! For this Liszt transposition, I always checks the playing time - most around 6 minutes. I tend to listen more closely those over 6 minutes as some lengthy ones close to 7 minutes! I miss Leslie Howard's recording here - he recorded entire Liszt -Schubert transposition in 1990s

[@davoudshojaei7834]

alot of amazingly technically gifted pianists, but a handful can tell a story...superb! thank you

[@lukeharrison8753]

in this piece, Horowitz is at his true peak. Forget the showmanship that makes a large part of his legacy, the real reason he remains one of if not the best pianist of the 20th century is shown in this piece. The harsh right hand sound at the beginning, the breathtaking dynamics, the echo sound. No one plays pieces like these like him.

[@lukeharrison8753]

(rachmaninoff js the only other who plays in the style to horowitz! And if horowitz is not the greatest of the 20th century, Rachmaninoff certainly is

[@robertflynn6686]

I love the comparison of famous themes. The Ginzsberg piano sounds sooo mellow. Gorgeously played. If I were serenading someone's it would be sooo subdued.

[@anitaongkl]

AO Wow.. Finally come across this eternally beloved Schubert/Liszt - Ständchen Serenade keyboard version played by 10 great pianists - in their own individually unique.. and breathtakingly touching ways! Thank you, thank you so much for uploading.. Mucho Gracias, Mucho Gracias, Merci Beaucoup, Ich Danke Dir Sehr, Tausend Dank, Xie Xie, Xie Xie.. and for all the beautiful, lovely exquisite artworks..

[@kaushikray1041]

Professor Kaushik Liszt/ Schubert Ständchen - all are masterpieces. Imposant und beruhigend. Every night before sleep I listen to these transcending me to a different world!!! Thank you KZbin!

[@leonidbrutman2000]

Thank you for this wonderful compilation!!!

[@marizacabral5141]

They're all wonderful unique versions. But, in my case (very subjective!), the version by Alexander Ghindin is the one that engaged me the most.

[@timshank3328]

I like Anna Malikova's version best. And that reminds me of Katarina Treutler's more recent version, which is the best of all.

[@Rosangela161]

Thank you! Everything is magnificent. The interpreters, the art work. All

[@raffaelegenovesi6649]

A Serenade from the Heaven Realms, played by ten sets of angels fingers. I hope it gets played daily there.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Only a keen desire that it wanted it to live longer is remains. It would be an irreversible loss for this great composer to die while he was young. I felt the contradiction that is strong in the standard of length and life and death of the life of human world. Why was he destined to die young？ Would it have to be him？ I never know it. It becomes heartbreaking when I listen to this great song while thinking about his life. I am tingling with anger and deep grief. From Tokyo of Japan

[@cahtwoman]

Who Cares?

[@Ernesto7608]

Be thankful that he came to life! Maybe the Divinity who sent him down here to pass on some Celestial music thought that after 31 years his mission was accomplished.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@Ernesto7608 Thankyou your wonderful comment From A corner of shining Toky with overwhelming autumn tints and various colorful illuminations and full of pleasure of New Year

[@maumusa123]

I didn't know Horowitz's famous piece was recorded in 1989, the year he passed away.

[@bangbang.kisskiss]

A very fitting narrative for the title of the suite this piece belongs to, "Schwanengesang" or "Swan Song".

[@Ирина-ш1с5х]

Боже мой, благодарю! Это прекрасно!

[@monikawerner7891]

Joel Hastings ...and RACHMANINOFF are my absolutely favourite Performer👍👍👍

[@matlig885]

Hastings est une version que j' apprécie beaucoup aussi.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

What a versatile and captivating and intriguing Schubert is

[@bastianinicorelli]

The versions I liked the most are Engerer's and Rachmaninoff's.

[@simmo303]

She was only a mere 60 when she died. Beautiful touch.

[@arcyken]

Je trouve les interprétations de Horowitz et Rachmaninoff trop stressantes. Par contre celle de Brigitte Engerer me plonge dans un état de douceur infinie. Je vous recommande sur KZbin celle de Katharina Treutler absolument sublime.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight you have felt a haunting loneliness sometimes while listening to this masterpiece.

[@fatimacanche9081]

La interpretacin de diez pianistas ,de tu pieza favorita ,te deseo un gran dia

[@angexu4361]

There needs to be a triple LIKE button. Thank you! Would be great if you could add even more to the list:)

[@terrybarlow2445]

That was almost 90 yrs ago.. Believe it or not she's still playing "colors" and recording today.

[@michaelmolz8037]

Pour moi, Anna Malikova est #1; followed by Bridget Engerer #2. Malikova plays the slowest of all, and I often prefer "slow".. I can't wait to explore more of Schubert - I've been buried for 2-4 decades in Impressionist piano, esp Ravel❤️ and Satie❤️. So this is a nice change.. I'm sorry to say (since he has so many fans here), but I like the Horowitz the least as I feel he takes TOO many liberties.. Who is the artist of the superb paintings?

[@cliveparaschis]

Agree 100%

[@kaushikray1041]

Wunderschön!

merci..... c'est une merveille...

[@sdorr]

Amazing that Vlad can sometimes make Schubert sound chopinesque...As always, Rachmaninoff & Horowitz are in a league of their own, although Alfred Brendel sometimes joins, as does Artur Schnabel - the last three, more or less, specialists in Schubert's milieu... I hear otherwise splendid pianists strangely sometimes choose to ignore perfomance practices indicated by the composer, and that are settled performance practice for more than a century...it doesn't improve their legacy....As Schnabel emphasized re Beethoven's music, the unadorned music has all the desired drama, if played straight, and with the composer's copious suggestions in he score... there are infinite variations within the composer's specifications...

[@n43510]

Personally, I thought Horowitz' performance here terrible, among the worst. A great pianist can play badly from time to time.

[@rupert99]

@@n43510 Horowitz has a very cold tone somehow.

[@rupert99]

@Martin Baldwin-Edwards each to his own ...I cannot stand him . But I do recognise his technial mastery

[@rupert99]

@Martin Baldwin-Edwards we will agree on that. neither of them is the greatest ever. I was a piano student myself

[@JCastro1959]

Bela música! Uma massagem na alma de quem escuta.

[@검객-d8e]

현존하는 클래식 중에서 가장 서정적이고 / 멜랑꼴리하기도 하고 / 애상적이기도 한 명곡 ^^*

[@danielmendez8634]

1: 27:28 Leonard 2: 49:38 Sergei 3: 44:59 Maryla are my top three.

[@tmrgrcn8217]

thank you so much

[@kaushikray1041]

So entspannend!

[@christinasore9167]

I love this music,cannot do without it, are there cd for sale.

[@faycalnajab6082]

Is there somewhere the list of the musicians who play that 10 versions ?

[@nurmaybooba]

yes

[@faycalnajab6082]

Engerer is beautiful too !

[@tonydrake5889]

Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how do you know which pianist is playing

[@Gard-s5f]

슬픈듯 아름다운곡이 마음을 흔드네요

[@doloresweatherspoon-bb4ul]

Marciej Pikulski - why is he not included? 🎼🎹🎼

[@sequoyah59]

I wonder how much of what we are hearing that we like or dislike is in the production?

[@helenheslop4677]

this is lovely, but my favourite Staenchen is Zoegernd, leise...

[@inraid]

Why did you leave out Sofronitsky ?!?

[@aidaborelli6882]

No lo olvidare hasta. Mi. Final

[@TheShipObserver]

Superb, but I prefer this:

[@TheShipObserver]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ23hZqAltpmabM

[@waliaphellps1745]

What about the paintings? Anyone can tell who they are? Thank you.

[@_PROCLUS]

Maryla Jonas ... by so very far .... … then Grigory Ginzburg

[@palandrasmester]

My top: Engerer, Hastings.

[@Lactoris1]

Very fine - too bad more listeners have not founf this yet.

[@kiweechun4629]

John Barrett 4

[@Spaltpilz]

@ : Grigory Ginzburg (1948)

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Human beings can not understand will of God. Human beings cannot know does God consider and how to behave. A result is just accepted. We can't imagine the regrettable of this great composer who died at the age ３１．His regrettable mind is immeasurable to us.

[@alexhamilton9758]

God destroys, while humans strive to survive in spite of Him.

[@robertkrykant4591]

Alex Hamilton God creates, human beings destroy. Humans are only ever a temporary transition despite what their egos would have them imagine.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@alexhamilton9758 Sorry the very late my reply ！ How is your conditions and your country ？ Our Japanese grievances are improving . Take care of yourself Good luck ！

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@robertkrykant4591 Thank-you so much to your wonderful reply ！ Take care of yourself Good luck ！ Be on the alert for Coronavirus infection . Someday please come to Tokyo where is full of dynamism , surprises , mystery and delicious foods .

[@robertkrykant4591]

Shin-i-chi Kozima you are a very special person, thank you for your kindness,

[@viggo1115]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@allpereny]

Normally, Khatia Buniatishvili is best but she is not on the list. So Brigitte Engerer is best.

[@sequoyah59]

Just a flavor of the day. They are all good with a subtlety for everyone. How are we to know how the master really intended the notes to be played?

[@xarowblued7796]

Agree, Khatia's is my favorite ever

[@madeleineurstein669]

Why " normaly" ? It's your point of view , not everybody's opinion.

[@allpereny]

@@madeleineurstein669 It's already my opinion. I don't have to specifically point this out.

[@madeleineurstein669]

@@allpereny So , say " my favourite is... "

[@tonygomes6306]

La beauté dans la tristesse !

[@maysmlau]

Grigory Ginzburg's piano sound is a little bit flat that I cannot bear to finish listening to this version, sorry.

[@geertschattenberg4437]

Khatia Buniatishvili you forgot! (at Verbier Festival, on a fenomenal Steinway Grand) and that is I find the best ever (even without all the nude parties)

[@mmg71]

I saw Kathia yesterday at Palau de la Música in Barcelona playing this piece and others. The worst concert I have ve seen in my life, she is not in the same category that Horowitz, Richter, Brendel, Kissin, Pollini...

[@geertschattenberg4437]

Hi Manuel Mates, may be you exaggerate a little bit in the negative, however you could be right. From my perspective (as I told) Khatia's version at the Verbier Festival of this Standchen was and is my Golden Standard. Look: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ23hZqAltpmabM and tell my when she is using the right pedal, I cannot see it, thanks, greetings & love from Malden The Netherlands!

[@toomuchrose]

She doesn't belong in this exalted company. I've seen her in concert twice and both times she encored with this piece and both times it was excrutiatingly awful. She stretched it to ridiculous lengths - almost ten minutes long! She is a show pony, a posturing pianist who pulls this piece to the emotional ends of the earth.

[@pianoman1857]

still Horowitz

[@pierrefoul5960]

On connait votre 🕎

[@sasholyubakonstantinovi9082]

rach version is not the same as horowitzs , and no.2 is bechstein piano

[@aidaborelli6882]

Dicen. Que alla. Es muy. Lindo

[@francescopiras7180]

Grygory Ginsburg.

[@calibardo]

Ginzburg, Rachmaninov, Horowitz

[@paulorcarro]

Os dejo la versión de Sergei Yerokhin kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIPLYoyvgZ5gnpI

[@zazadem7729]

Certains interprètes ne gardent pas la parfaite égalité de tempo de la main gauche, ce qui est bien dommage ! Pour moi la plus belle interprétation est celle de Khatia Buniatishvili.

[@chaim1954]

Pour moi aussi. La beauté (de son jeu, de son apparence) sauvera le monde. Excusez-moi cette paraphrase de Dostoievski.

[@zazadem7729]

chaim54 ❤️ la beauté c’est tout ce qui nous reste dans ce monde de fous!

[@dominiquedesobry8125]

Khatia Buniatishvili réalise la meilleure performance pour cette partition. Dominique Henrisch

[@frederik606]

Mais qu'attendait Schubert de cette pièce ?

[@sasholyubakonstantinovi9082]

rachmaninoff quite different !?

[@sasholyubakonstantinovi9082]

no. 7 bechstein i guess too

[@thomashansen8043]

Ads everywhere ..

[@aidaborelli6882]

Te. Quise. Mucho.

[@toomuchrose]

Horowitz every time. Everything else is soporific and cloyingly sentimental.

[@vasileneculai6376]

Música. Relahante

[@frankezendam5409]

Listen to the version of Lang Lang and Khatia Buniatishvili, which both outperform all of the above. Said so Alexander Ghindin comes really close.

[@ВераВиноградова-д3с]

Are you sure that outperforming is a good thing for this piece of music? For any , by the way...

[@frankezendam5409]

@@ВераВиноградова-д3с With this I don't mean speed but most off all musicality and the feel they both are able to put in.

[@ВераВиноградова-д3с]

@@frankezendam5409 Buniatishvili is always shallow, not a good pianist. Lang Lang is probably the best Chinese pianist, but all of them are very robotic, I'm not sure they feel anything when they play. This selection is excellent, Horowitz is the one I like most, but all of them are extremely good.

[@frankezendam5409]

@@ВераВиноградова-д3с wow, saying someone is always shallow is very harsh. The same for saying All the Chinese pianists are very robotic. I’ve seen Kathia play some parts which I didn’t like, because she was showing off her skill in playing many notes per second instead of making music. But in this case, both Kathia and Lang Lang are neither shallow nor robotic. If you say I do like the others more, that’s fine with me and I’m glad that there are many excellent pianists so we all can enjoy the same music, because of the different styles they bring.

[@ВераВиноградова-д3с]

@@frankezendam5409 Harsh but true) And I like others more because they are objectively better, all of them.

[@lygiacatani835]

ouviria mais 10.

[@kristianpaju7432]

Cirilus

[@pompodorius]

Thanks for posting ,Anyone has a link to the sheet music?

[@arcidiavolo]

https: //imslp.org/wiki/Schwanengesang%2C_D.957_(Schubert%2C_Franz)

[@pompodorius]

Thank you.

[@n43510]

musescore.com/user/22249306/scores/4907304

[@thomgeo8073]

Alexander Chindin

[@CONTRER2010]

Horowitz

[@monicagourgues3763]

S'agit-il d'une œuvre de Litsz ou de Shubert?

[@curaticac5391]

Certainement il ne s’agit d’une œuvre ni de « Litsz » ni de « Shubert » parce que de telles personnes n’ont probablement jamais existé.

[@nessieness5433]

@@curaticac5391 Yes, they have existed, their names are just spelled wrongly.

[@aidaborelli6882]

Subis. Al. Cielo

[@concerned1]

Staccato removes any romanticism.

[@lauterunvollkommenheit4344]

This is how it's written.

[@eljuano28]

It's supposed to represent trepidation. The protagonist is not confident but jealous and intimidated by the unseen competition for the object of his heart's want. Tré pathetique. When I play the introduction I don't play it ridged staccato. I play as if my fingers were my words and my words were a plea, restrained in my trembling throat; heart pounding; timid; wanting desperately to be heard yet abjectly terrified of rejection.

[@ginogepi254]

Horowitz.

[@fatimacanche9081]

La primeraa esta muy choteada ya aburre

[@sergiooliva5892]

Assolutamente Horowitz

[@MartinVanBoven]

Just some brief observations while listening... I found none of the versions convincing. Then again, this is, in my opinion, a piece that is really hard to bring convincingly. 01 0:00Very controlled, cantabile, a bit uninspired 02 3:58 Piano / recording? Uneven rhythm, uninspired 03 9:54 Rubato, anxious, uninspired 04 15:30 Staccato accompaniment!, intimate recording, cheap rubato and dynamics 05 21:07 Slower, too heavy, a bit uninspired 06 27:28 Old mono recording, uneven rhythm, odd tempo variations 07 32:01 Slower, too slow, oddly played embellishments 08 38:23 Old mono recording, intimate (result of recording?), controlled dynamics! 09 44:59 Odd rubato 10 49:38 Older recording, uneven chords?, odd rubato, odd tempo variations

[@PrincePhilippe1]

I'm so impressed by the acuity of your statement ! LOL !

[@MartinVanBoven]

Haha, sorry :) I was intrigued because there were no names yotted down with the video yet, tagging them for myself to remember which was which. Then I realised I did not really like any. :( Now I'm waiting for the names to hopefully appear, to see which famous pianists I burned :D.

[@nataliapavelkovamrazova6488]

Please give your the most profound interpretation. I like Murray Perahia.

[@jmcconnell1934]

What would be ‘convincing’? (Real question; don’t understand what you mean by ‘convincing’)

[@Mritalicsmine]

they all have flaws. Surely there must be better examples than these.

[@tillmanward8481]

I believe Horowitz would probably say Liszt played it just fine...

[@kevinm6790]

Horowitz never heard Liszt play.

[@estelahassein4697]

Horowitz,the best.

[@susannahrose678]

Horowitz by a mile. As usual.

[@pierrefoul5960]

La version très au dessus est Lang Lang

[@pierrefoul5960]

🕎Pourquoi rien que des juifs ?