Brendel plays Schubert Impromptu Op.90 No.1

[@Jim-kt6is]

About 40 years I heard this music on the TV. I tried humming it to my piano teacher so she could find it for me to play. She couldn't recognise it and I never heard it again. BUT for 40 years, the tune would some times return to my brain. Then, a few days ago, I "sang" it into google and finally identified it. Mystery solved! Except that now I'm still bugged by trying to remember what the drama was. It was a BBC thing, a drama I think.

[@samlee3686]

Barry Lyndon?

[@teddy1066]

It is played during the “Intermission” roughly halfway through the film Barry Lyndon.

[@kurthansen580]

I absolutely love hearing stories like this. One of the greatest joys in life is finding the source of a song/piece of music that you've loved for many, many years, but couldn't hear it again--until the moment of revelation. Great story; thanks for sharing.

[@쇼팽쇼팽]

Brendel's Schubert is the best performance that everyone recognizes. It makes Schubert look like Schubert. He plays Schubert so neatly and beautifully. The same goes for this song. His interpretation is so perfect.

[@abs0716]

If I could only listen to one recording of one piece of music for the rest of my life, this would be it.

[@yuheekim7625]

Agreed. Always so clean and elegant, that Brendel - no flash just for the sake of flash. Which is why I love him.

[@blackpoolram]

This rendition is really one to aspire to.

[@anhypotheton]

The admirable thing about Brendel is that after you have heard many pianists' performances, each with their own merits and unique conceptions, you can always rely on Brendel when you want to go back to the basics - which is extremely difficult to achieve and requires the most clear-minded artistry.

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

he is actually one of the few pianists who misses out what Schubert wrote. He is therefore a terrible interpreter imo

[@youkan117]

この曲は、ブレンデルの演奏が一番だ。ＣＤで何十回と聴いたが、聴く度に感動する。

[@victryismin89]

I really do love this piece.

[@Shoshas]

The different contrasts and modulation of Brendel are Fantastics!!!

[@GabrielSantos-qe9lu]

Just love this part 6:50!

[@nilswestman4013]

At 3:35 too in another key.

[@stevecatanzaro974]

Makes me wonder if any pop songwriter used that part ala Rachmaninoff 2nd or Fantasie Impromptu- certainly with the Maj 7 chords and the #5's it would be very at home in a 20th century pop song.

[@larrym1439]

the showmanship thing being what it is these days, we sometimes lose sight of the emotion, sentiments, etc. that the great ones seem to build right into a composition. Brendel seems to preserve this above all.

[@yicantong2299]

That’s the sound made me dropped tears

[@nofortnitehere2119]

Been Learning this for a while now and I've loved it

[@tedo1995geo]

from 3;30 is the best part of this great music

[@jkd4195]

I agree wholeheartedly. I've never been a religious guy. But passages such as 3:34-3:57 make me wonder if they are having some awesome Shubertiades in the great beyond. I hope they are anyway.

[@paulandrewsmith_henriksen]

One of my faves ❤️

[@gerritmvisser]

This music gets you to the throat

[@Cunciko]

I Used to play it a few years ago... It's really amazing!... :*

[@熊鞋子]

😉This will be a piece worth dedicating my next few months to learn.

[@kimsolmo]

Brendel is the master!

[@mariemargueriteleclercq8985]

J'adore ce morceau je le travaille

[@Dhha]

Did anyone notice what seems to be a pedaling mistake in measures 10 to 11 (last sixteenth note in 10 to first quarter note in 11)? Second 0:36

[@insignissima]

There is indeed something ; not a pedaling "mistake" (and yet I think Brendel uses the pedal too often, as far as I can hear) ; I’d rather say that he lingers a bit over the sixteenth note D ; but it’s an interesting effect, isn’t it ?

[@marthamckie4211]

This is a hilarious comment, whether intentionally so or perfectly seriously! Love it!

[@matthewmoon2463]

Imo, Brendel nails this piece almost to perfection. Many artists play this piece with too much flair and it sounds forced and stilted, eg. Zimmerman. Zimmerman is brilliant with Chopin but he doesn't play Schubert convincingly. This is one of Schubert's most interesting works of art and it needs almost a 19th century "Austrian" mental understanding to get right. Brendel somehow understands Schubert well enough to tap into it.

[@ViceroyoftheDiptera]

Agreed, Zimmerman takes rubato liberties that simply don’t fit Schubert, sometimes to the point of self-indulgence. Part what makes these pieces beautiful is that the harmonic changes, the melodies, are almost fleeting, and spending ages on certain notes kills that flow.

[@mandalaxxl]

Brendel is a musical poet.

[@mysteriousDSF]

Great performance. Most of the mainstream pianists play everything too slow today. They don't make the wail, they make it rant.

[@russellthompson9271]

Please also watch my performance of the 4th Impromptu.

[@manuelrodriguez-pr3qh]

Michael Haneke: AMOUR.

[@benappel1571]

amazing interpretation

[@fsquare6305]

Dope song

[@jcalli66]

Wonderful!

[@cityalien]

This was an exam piece for me, and I never really got it, very difficult for me. :(

[@tobiasfischer6130]

From a musical (not technical) aspect I find this piece tremendously difficult to play, and never really got it right either so far.

[@my-self2278]

Unless you practice 40 hours a day

[@my-self2278]

I meant that in a good way I did not mean to make you mad if your mad

[@gereonrath6601]

Its easy from a technical point.

[@caterscarrots3407]

Gereon Rath Compared to Liszt, absolutely, but it certainly isn’t easy. Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata is easier than this.

[@pilouetmissiou]

Questa è una interpretazione molto diversa da quella che ne ha dato Brendel in altro periodo....ma che importa è talmente bello come musica .... Chi ha detto come si deve suonarlo in fondo ?

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

Schubert's epitaph should have the same words as Purcell's, instead of Grillparzer's ; " He has gone to that blessed place where his harmony only can be surpassed".

[@heiheihang]

Um...Is this an impromptu? I SPENT 4 MONTHS TO LEARN THE FIRST MOVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!

[@jacarga]

All the first impromptu is one movement

[@my-self2278]

what do you mean?

[@angelasundstrom8669]

@@my-self2278 that sounds right

[@musicianscientific1067]

I guess he means the first theme

[@balestraitalo]

che pianista ...! bravissimo.

[@metinibrahimli8146]

Schubert Avesomme composer!!

[@TinoHoff]

love it

[@lamixiaolantw]

11월 15일, 이곳은 아직 가을이네요.

[@ThisisTedWells]

I prefer this interpretation over Zimmerman's

[@yuheekim7625]

From 3:37-3:58 (and again from 6:49-7:10) sounds very Chopin-y (or maybe Liszt-y). Other parts remind me a little of Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude.

[@rafaelwillems3244]

Did Schubert open the way for Chopin? I'm just asking. When I listen to this...

[@purplefishy8164]

Perhaps it sounds a bit like Raindrop etude because of the repeated notes?

[@WichyBaldwin]

Barry Lyndon who?

[@angelasundstrom8669]

this is a fun song to listen to!!!! right?

[@user-ny5lt9oe8c]

1:58

[@iggykarpov]

SCHUBERT:Impromptus

[@ferdaousy7]

I'm here before Amour and after Amour.

[@BERORT100]

Very good. Brendel takes out the dynamic effects more than Zimerman. Zimerman i more interested in the ligthness. Zimerman is very good, but I think that Brendel is little better as Schubert interpretor. Their is more dramatic over Brendel.

[@MusicSuperstar-v52]

とてもしなやかですね。

[@tg92277]

03:35 ❤

[@yayitadelsur]

Perfecto!

[@BeachAndSnow]

If it's in C why are there 3 flats in the key signature?

[@ruthchipperfield3061]

C minor uses the key of E flat. In C minor the 7th note, B flat, is sharpened to natural, changing the interval from the E flat major pattern. It gives the slightly mournful sense to the music, in spite of its delicacy and air of sweetness.

[@BeachAndSnow]

Thanks Ruth, but I still don't understand why it's titled "Impromptu in C" as opposed to "Impromptu in C minor" - maybe a typo in this version of the sheet music.

[@ruthchipperfield3061]

Ha! In the little panel above, headed 'Published on Dec 15...' click on SHOW MORE, and the music is entitled No. 1 in C minor.

[@BeachAndSnow]

ok thanks

[@mstalcup]

C minor has three flats and the bulk of this piece is in C minor. The last part of the piece, however, is in C major and the piece ends in that key. Notice on the last page is the key signature of C major (no flats or sharps).

[@Icefire3339]

This piece currently has 666 likes and 6 dislikes.

[@cityalien]

This was very difficult for me :(

[@СеменСеменыч-ш1э]

Клас!!!!

[@DettolObsessed]

I dunno why I always seem to fall in love with 2nd and 3rd movements but intros are always a bit slow for me

[@BernardoPOR]

Amour

[@Cherrierune]

I like it but Zimmerman gives the piece more emotion and is very technical its a amazing...sorry Brendal. I like your interpretation too though..

[@niklakislakis6557]

All this is too masculine for my taste....

[@ig..anisnbt]

5:42 how can he play that so easily, brendel you are amazing

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

I think because masters like Brendel truly understand the language that is music. They are not just actively listening and playing from memory but are rather "reciting" the tonal poem that the original composer created. In modern classical teachings the emphasis lies heavily on developing technique and memory in favor of teaching relative pitch and counterpoint. The latter two skills used to be tutored for pianists and composers alike but the last century this tradition has been dying out in favor of technical display.