Frederic Lamond plays Beethoven Sonata in C major No. 21 Op. 53 "Waldstein"

[@margaretannemartin5668]

Thank you for posting this frederick was my grandfathers cousin and this is the first I have heard him play.

[@PiccDan]

Lovely playing: fluid, always expressive & spontaneous, so never dull. Thanks.

[@pianopera]

Wonderful recording, thanks! This "Waldstein comparison" is very interesting... Lamond was hailed as "the greatest living exponent of Beethoven" before Schnabel took over... his playing is beautifully shaped, grand and very melodic, the second mvt. had great depth. Sometimes there was lack of fluency in his technique. He doesn't play the octaves as glissandi (at 19:57)... He idolized Beethoven and wrote: "Haydn is the way to Heaven, Mozart is Heaven itself, and Beethoven is the God therein."

[@rapsodie1211]

Il est écrit nulle part qu'elles doivent être glissando... si c'est le cas merci beaucoup, j'aurais appris quelque chose. Si c'est écrit il n'y a pas de sujet sinon est-ce que vous savez qui est à l'origine de cette tradition ? Sont-ce des témoignages du jeu de Beethoven ou de Czerny ?

[@paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY gullivor-You are among but a hand full now up there with the very best music posters on you tube.

[@1ImmanuelK]

Lovely interpretation. The tempi feel quite natural and free from exaggeration. Schnabel's recording is very different and I do not see it as an unequivocal improvement over Lamond's. Let us just celebrate the diversity.

[@sll10]

Excellent performance but interesting how tempi flucuations were so much more tolerated in those days!

[@jamesbrennan6022]

It's odd - in the opening of the first movement he does many of the same things as Edwin Fischer, who studied with a Liszt pupil, Martin Krause, but Fischer is subtler and doesn't emphasise them in exactly this way. Lamond seems to ignore bar lines and phrase freely as a singer between harmonic or textural events, so that the time he keeps comes from inside the music rather than any notion of a metronome - once you make allowances fpr ageing muscles. Did Liszt play something like this? Sauer, who didn't claim to be a 'Liszt pupil' (he acknowledged Nicolas Rubinstein) doesn't play in this way. If you can trust Schindler, on the other hand, it might just be that Beethoven actually did - but.....

[@Abidification]

Stylistically there is a resemblance to Kempff.

[@barrtok]

thanks!

[@thewizardii1638]

cooll..cheers..

[@kimdoomin]

Oh my holy God... Is this real?