CLARA HASKIL - THE LEGEND PLAYS SCHUBERT

[@sj-ob6pj]

Very glad to listen to her playing d960 while I'm into Schubert. So touching and deeply impressive..

[@georgefelty6357]

This lady was truly one of the best and filled with such emotion!

[@zivagoodman9654]

I never heard such a convincing performance of this sonata. Superb

[@tompomm8760]

Rudolf Serkin has played the last sonatas also very well😊

[@Stevarino1020]

Heartfelt, passionate playing from a phenomenon that understood prolonged suffering from her life experience. Prodigies like Clara are rare especially when they mature and grow as musicians as Clara did.

[@mikepen3477]

There will never be another Clara Haskil

[@unafroh7654]

there will never be another youuuuu

[@janbonsema5888]

clara Haskil came to my provincial town to play, her level had come down a notch , because what we hear here is absolutly masterful, bang-on !

[@shupingwang3392]

This is heavenly. Earth and silk , finely graded. An emotional authenticity that is unheard elsewhere.

[@philiprostek]

Legend is not too strong a word for empassioned playing like this... one of my favorite pieces... oh! that low trill in the first movement... The clean phrasing throughout is infallable. Thank k you for sharing!

[@zvezdinki7998]

philip rostek very very good interpretation! I’ll see her other works

[@whatadump8093]

This divine being, whom we called Clara Haskil, is Music Herself. Pure Music, in the deepest, broadest and subtlest sense of the word.

[@irenenaselli2429]

Maravillosa,sublime Clara, la eterna

[@mk5244]

.....Schubert and Clara Haskil, a synonym of perfect beauty. The oeuvre of Schubert sounds as if he had life experience of a wise human being. Leaving earth at 27 makes it even more miraculous. Music from heaven through a man gifted by God in a very particular way, performed by an angel. Mi piace moltissimo

[@guillaumequenderff7520]

He died at 31

[@knd1940]

The greatest rendition of the greatest of Schubert's sonatas that I've ever heard. PLEASE retitle it to something like CLARA HASKIL: THE LEGEND PLAYS SCHUBERT. This video has never come up in my searches for Clara Haskil because her name doesn't appear in the title. But thank you for posting this and for the wonderful photomontage.

[@berlinzerberus]

..Done!

[@irenecabrejos33dekossuth]

Never better chosen an epitet for a pianist, "legend", while we listen to the heart- breaking interpretation of Shubert's last sonata contemplating Clara's beauty through phantasmagorical images which suggest the simbiosis of her soul with Schubert's...Thank you so much...

[@JamesVaughan]

A legend indeed. The most sublime recording of the Schubert B-flat ever made. She captures the pathos of Schubert's last sonata, the elegiac and the celestial in the magnificent slow movement…all with a deeply human sound that only Clara Haskil could produce. My favourite recording of this great work...now and forever.

[@berlinzerberus]

I entirely agree, James!

[@Hyramess]

What could I hope to add to what you have said, James? I've been aware of this performance since the early 1960's, and always had the highest respect for it, but never realized what great depths it plumbed before. Myra Hess also left a wonderful account of this work as did the usually-underrated Lily Kraus, but nothing could ever move me as much as Claude Frank's life performance in Philharmonic Hall in 1967. It was the equal of this, and the second movement cast such a spell the 46-year-old memory still surpasses most of hundreds of subsequent concert-going experiences. RIghtly understood this sonata provides a genuinely religious experience. It is a mystical revelation of Schubert's soul.

[@jeanfourneau4411]

Indeed , so true !

[@tsochengkimo]

00:00 I. Molto moderato 13:30 II. Andante sostenuto 21:40 III. Scherzo - Allegro vivace con delicatezza - Trio 25:18 IV. Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto

[@rubensiedner4584]

The playing of the entire sonata is so overwheling that no words can substitue for the pure musicianship of Clara Haskil. I am captured by the fine criss-cross of themes in the 1st movement, so transparent and bright. The second movement is timeless and spaceless and most moving in revealing Schubert's so unique music; but when it comes to the second section, clouds disappear and spring enters the scene. There is a strong expression of optiism and hope in midst of endless sadness before the pianist returns to the timeless theme again, slightly but so significantly variated. This is art supreme! The rest... one of those chains of perls and wonders in the hands of an artist, of Goddess of Music. (Sorry for being so emphatic)

[@Sophiestelle]

I'm absolutely agree with you; well said!

[@nghiatrinh8686]

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[@gfweis]

What a superb example this opening is of maintaining pace at a slower tempo. Not so easy as she makes it sound.

[@Sophiestelle]

Thank you for your music dear Clara!

[@123must]

Yes indeed, a Legend ! Thanks a lot

[@walterbenjamin1386]

She has that unmistakable deep, velvety sound.

[@mauriziolivraghi5572]

Grande e infelice!

[@danali45]

It makes me shiver. 06:00 onwards: Clara's magical playing.

[@antonellamajorano5348]

Ho ascoltato con molta attenzione più volte. Richter è insuperabile !

[@pascalgrinberg5530]

Estoy de acuerdo, especialmente en el segundo movimiento.

[@janbonsema5888]

i was about to take a dig at the poster who used the word legend , and say thete was no one legend , there werer a series of them. But then I heard one bar and the letters "Clara Haskil" so I thought I 'd bettter shut up.

[@もらもら]

I have just read her biography. I love this human, and her music. perhaps entirely not hers, but music incarnated.

[@urherman1]

Haskill--the poetic genius-- plays one of the greatest performances of Schubert's last sonsata

[@daviddemers9093]

Beautifully played, although I also loved Mr. Serkin's interpretation. I wonder if he first heard this recording. It is truly gorgeous.

[@massimoquercia8780]

Gould e Haskil giustificano l'esistenza di Dio

[@Christian-uv6gs]

ABM pone invece il dubbio

[@pascalgrinberg5530]

Para mi justifican prescindir de ese invento humano inútil que es dios bajo todas sus formas y disfraces.

[@marinacaracciolo3161]

Franz Schubert: Sonata in si bemolle maggiore D 960. (Splendida Sonata e splendido modo di suonare!!!... Peccato per l'audio molto - ovviamente - datato!)

[@alexlee5600]

amazing.........

[@berlinzerberus]

Niemand spielt das Thema des ersten Satzes so herzzerreißend schön wie Clara Haskil. berlinzerberus

[@marjoriehansen8639]

berlinzerberus f

[@morinoroba]

The best version I've ever heard.

[@zvezdinki7998]

Превосходно

[@luisdiazlopez3712]

Han pasado 7 meses desde mi comentario precedente. Advierto que es el un simple degustador de la Gran Música, un lego en técnica musical, incapaz de tocar cualquier instrumento, cuyos parámetros son únicamente los estéticos y emocionales, en el sentido de referir a la impresión de belleza y estado de ánimo transmitida por la estructura de sonidos que el autor, el "ton dichter" concibió y la forma que le da el intérprete. Sigo en la convicción de que esta es, quizá, la mejor versión de esta obra. Aunque hay varias otras excelsas, esta es mi preferida.

[@berlinzerberus]

A highly simplified and partly superficially one-sided approach.

[@copleysq]

overwhelming.

[@vurria123]

Just discovered this - what a treasure. Yudina is a great interpretation; Schnabel was the best - and this might be better than Schnabel overall, so many subtle discoveries, the essence of Schubert. What a mind, so many thematic revelations here. Truly astonishing.

[@jubilanti15]

"The glory of music endures in the depths of the human soul." Master of Music by Henry Van Dyke. Somehow one feels this must be so....

[@上田進-r2g]

遠く世界の片隅に住みて、古の唐の詩聖杜甫の如く、深山を巡りて 下野に流るるゝ曲がりくねりし小川の淀みに、顔を映して昔を忍びて思いに耽るひとりの逸民であります。 川の流れに似たる美しき調べに聴き入ってしまう程のピアノの達人は間違い無く、あの才媛クララ・ハスキルの奏でるシユーベルトは この世のものとは思えない程の流麗極まる演奏であります。 クララ・ハスキルという希代の名ピアニストは私達の子供時代の人でありました。 ここでピアニストと言えば如何しても、挙げたく人があるのであります。それはディヌ・リパッティのことであります。二人とも全く同時代のピアニストでありました。ハスキルはリパッティより少し年上で、リパッティは彼女をとても尊敬しておりました。 甲乙付け難しの名ピアニストでありました。リパッティは自分の演奏会に彼女が居ると、たいそう弾きにくかったそうでありました。 私は本来ハスキルのことを言うべきなのでありますが、此処でリパッティのことを皆様に知って戴きたいのであります。ハスキルを聴いたならリパッティを聴くべしなのであります。私はいつも15という数字を自分に取って誠に大切なものと思っております。15歳、15年がそうであります。リパッティに出会ったのは15の時でありました。15の歳で就職し、15年間文学、音楽、所謂、人間に取って最も大切な、文化の大海をひとり泳いだのであります。その事は自分に取り奇跡であったと思っております。 そうして、私が若い内にはあまり現れず、もう70前でありますが、突如としてその奇跡が現れたのであります。話が如何しても飛躍して仕舞うのでありますが、皆様にお伝えしたいことがあります。不思議な経験は普通には、他人には話さないと思うのです。 それを話しますと馬鹿にされて仕舞うかも知れないからです。しかし恐れてはいけません、目の前の自分が信じたことを 心を集中して、つまり眼光紙背に徹するように観るのであります。その結果所謂、奇跡が現れるのであります。 要は真剣であるかどうかであります。自分を疑う者に真実は現れません。生きていることの意味と価値を獲得しようとすればそれしか無いのであります。短い人の世を敢然と生きて行こうてはありませんか❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💔❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💓

[@Marinavalerevna]

Дину Липатти! Спасибо, что вспомнили о нём... Может быть погружаться в океан искусства нужно в одиночку и на самую большую глубину.

[@Marinavalerevna]

Женщина неземной красоты и таланта.

[@berlinzerberus]

I agree!

[@rafaelbanusirusta5430]

Ganz einverstanden!!!

[@Jepimon1]

Mmmmh that's great !

[@luisdiazlopez3712]

El pathos de un Franz Peter que, atacado por la sífilis, siente cercana la muerte con 31 años de vida, captado por la sensibilidad de una mujer que llevó una vida sufriente, acosada por la pobreza y las enfermedades y que solo hacia el final de su vida tuvo el éxito que su genio musical merecía. Una alta cumbre de la gran música de todos los tiempos interpretada por la mejor pianista que ha existida, llamada, con justicia, "La leyenda".

[@duwir5959]

Schubert Sonata No.21 D. 960

[@berlinzerberus]

Done, thank you!

[@keybawd4023]

I don't want to be a party pooper - I have worshipped Clara Haskil since I first heard her Schumann recordings as a child. She is one of the most wonderful pianists to walk the face of the earth BUT I find the instability of her tempi here very unsettling: sudden spurts and retards. Now, her Edinburgh Festival performance (what there is of it) is in my opinion much greater. No instable tempi and transcendental playing.

[@berlinzerberus]

Let's be happy that she was able to play that way despite of her physical disabilities. She had the authority of an angel IMO!

[@keybawd4023]

As I said, she was so wonderful, one should listen to her on one's knees. But like all great musicians, there were days when she was more great than others.

[@berlinzerberus]

Yes, very true!

[@richardwhitehouse8762]

I'm afraid I agree. I saw this and wanted it to be marvelous, only the tempo fluctuations really don't work for me.

[@jsc5492]

I wish posters would tell us on what type of piano the pianists play. As well as the year and location of the recording.

[@berlinzerberus]

Not important, just listen. Clara Haskil was an angel!

[@jayhaar2440]

Beautifully played with such purity and gracefulness. But I have to say the pictures fading in and out really bothered me.

[@berlinzerberus]

Close your eyes and listen and your problem is solved!

[@jackhoyer7467]

+berlinzerberus , I like the photos quite a bit - they're a beautiful selection.

[@Hermanhub]

Why, but why didn’t she record the impromptus??? Is this the official studio recording?

[@_PROCLUS]

Andante sostenuto at 13:29

[@paulprocopolis]

Beautifully crafted, thoughful but also passionate Schubert playing (though my preference for Kempff remains). Haskil's sound is lyrical, clean and pure so it's a shame that the fortes become distorted in this transfer.

[@TiticatFollies]

+ Paulprocopolis Yes, Kempff for me, too.

[@arturozeballos1]

y el ritornello a los 4 minutos , 23?????

[@marcosquarcini]

She IS Schubert, and SHE is Mozart.

[@berlinzerberus]

Indeed!

[@williamshakespeare1775]

Would it possible for belinzerberus to identify at least some of the people in the photographs? For instance, did I see a young Szeryng?

[@berlinzerberus]

Arthur Grumiaux Violinist

[@aepark8598]

daebak!!!!

[@arranvalkin2762]

Haskil moves me

[@atrebil71]

Clara Haskil e Charlie Cheplin...

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Haskil is of course on the perfect line .... but for me Richter is going a step further than that , entering the pain mystery .....

[@clochedebois]

Désolé : ce n'est pas la "meilleure version" et voici pourquoi ... On décerne usuellement le titre de "meilleure version" au terme d'une comparaison entre plusieurs versions... ca va de soi, me direz vous. Oui, mais, ce que nous entendons ici sous les doigts de Clara Haskil ne peut être comparé à rien. Comment pourrait il venir à l'esprit de comparer cette version à une autre ? Elle est tout simplement, et d'entrée de jeu, et pour toujours HORS CONCOURS.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Dévotion superficielle et lauriers ridicules . Ecoutez Richter . Ou Erdmann , ou Schnabel ; et peut-être verrez-vous d'autres perspectives que celles , assez limitées , car très affectives de Mme Haskil .

[@clochedebois]

Faut lire, Fritz. J'ai justement écrit que l'on ne pouvait PAS comparer, et tu me demandes de le faire...Ca, c'est sur le fond. Sur la forme, tu prends tes deux épithètes "ridicules" et "superficielle", et tu te les cares dans le fion, petit merdeux.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Vos insultes ne me touchent aucunement . Et ce n'est certainement pas à vous de décider si Haskil est "comparable" ou non . Il s'agit de la même Sonate de Schubert . Et si mon intervention ne vous convient pas , voyez avec vous-même quel problème existentiel anal cela vous pose . Fidèlement , Fritz .

[@whatadump8093]

@clochedebois. I understand what you are saying and fully agree with you: this is definitely 'hors concours pour toujours'. Hence comparing it to any other interpretation is nonsensical and pointless.

[@Hermanhub]

Fritz Maisenbacher , pourquoi autant de hargne devant le génie de Clara Haskil. Richter à une approche très différente et plus discutable en se prenant pour Furtwangler, parmi les russes je retiendrai plutôt Sofronitzki. Erdmann a donné plusieurs versions mémorables mais dans un autre registre.

[@williamshakespeare1775]

Try Sokolov for Schubert.

[@zuhairbakdoud1360]

What a beautiful lofty piece of music but only the first and the slow movements The last movement is cliche and meaningless!

[@diewarheit7777777]

Frau Haskil spielt alle die Großen Komponisten, als ob sie es selber wären eine Größe der Musik Interpretinnen die es so nur einmal gibt unerreicht und zu tiefst Nachdenklich wenn sie auf die Noten schaut!!

[@inraid]

mechanical, stiff, metronomic, harsh sound

[@berlinzerberus]

Hehe...you seem to be very silly. The opposite is true. Clara was an angel! Sheer nonsense what you wrote! You have no idea from playing the piano musically.