Arrau plays Schumann Sonata No. 1 Op. 11 (Live 30 May 1969 Brescia, Italy)

[@metteholm4833]

Schumann was a great storyteller and Arrau a great interpreter. This is the best Schumann, I ever heard.

[@sakuntalabasu1493]

I tried two different interpretations of this sonata by other musicians but had to give up after a few minutes because some spark was missing. Then I came to the Maestro's performance and knew this is what I was looking for. At my age I have little time left for mediocre music, so unfortunately I must pick and choose only what seems the best to me. So glad I found this post, thank you.

[@dougjohnson3299]

Outstanding!

[@waltersteinbaum2627]

This is realy an interpretation. Great!

[@STUDIOLAFENICE]

Such passion! I am captivated by this performance. How exciting it must have been in the hall. Thank you for sharing

[@DouglasSMoore-gx2nr]

Beautiful

[@inichansichlich]

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING

[@joaopaulosantosalmeida9053]

Que pianista esse Arrau! quantas vezes eu o ouvi no m

[@そら-r2n]

I like his poetic expression.

[@arturozeballos1]

Maravilloso documento y que toma de sonido mas exquisita por la época de grabación. Podrás subir el resto del repertorio? son 2 cds que ademas trae Beethoven y otros. saludos AZ

[@williamsu5552]

bravo ! my mind is blown away !

[@brkahn]

This is beautiful, as always with Claudio Arrau. But... Someone wrote somewhere that, if he wants to understand Schumann, he listens to Arrau. And here, I feel his interpretation goes too much in such a direction. Arrau has chosen a meaning for this sonata: melancholic, going towards a somewhat appeased end. This is very coherent, but I prefer to hear the trouble, the ambiguity, and the awkwardness one feels in other interpretations because one cannot exactly understand what Schumann wants to say. It is not a mystery, it is a disturbing feeling stirring unconscious intuitions which, for me, is the essence of some of Schumann's music (not all).

[@silvio2869]

What a giant

[@mariam_much]

31:20

[@joaopaulosantosalmeida9053]

quantas eu o ouvi no Municipal.

[@joaopaulosantosalmeida9053]

Martin Krause. Tereza Carreño. Cláudio Arrau.

[@slakva.school]

Не доучил чуть - чуть..)

[@TruthSurge]

I never enjoy the choppy, ADD phrasing of Spanish music or anything like what this starts off as. I like smooooth.... flowy... floaty.... dreamy.... then who cares what I like???? hahahha

[@Yhiith]

TruthSurge pork god

[@TruthSurge]

Yes, I am the amazing flying SWINE GOD! Worship me! If you do, you'll go to my Pork Heaven where you can eat bacon every day w/o gaining weight or having a heart attack. But you gotta like Bach and Chopin, though, at least.

[@zenonorth1193]

Interesting that you mentioned Spanish music. The first movement of the sonata was originally conceived as a stand-alone "Fandango". And Pork Heaven? Yes, please. I promise I'm nuts about both Chopin and Bach. If it weren't for Chopin I might have stopped playing the piano around age 12. I never became a pro, but it still gives me daily pleasure.

[@TruthSurge]

@@zenonorth1193 Yeah, I like Chopin's stuff. I don't mean to lump all Spanish music together but it just came to mind. I'm not much on classical music but I like some of it. Some of it is just amazing. I think the length of the pieces is what made me not really like it because my tiny brain couldn't remember half that many notes! :)

[@zenonorth1193]

@@TruthSurge Well, as far as this Schumann sonata is concerned, he definitely needed somebody to say " Um, Robert...do you really think you need to repeat that part again?" In fact, he could have used some self-editing in a number of his other piano pieces. In the absence of the composer himself though, I guess I'd rather have what he wrote than somebody else's "Reader's Digest" version.

[@aaronnelson7104]

For better or worse, the days are over where you can get a away with such a sloppy technical performance. I give him credit for pursuing such an idiosyncratic view of the piece. Those days are over too, I'm afraid.

[@petermerelis]

we have traded musicality for technicality. bad trade.

[@mirkocarosella7470]

Too much mistakes

[@robertocarvalhodemagalhaes3648]

Too MANY mistakes... As you see, we all can make mistakes! Specially if we are playing live...

[@thomaskrull6905]

We´ll wait for your perfect version. "For sure will be the greatest"

[@iggyreilly2463]

Typical YT response.

[@marcosviniciosribeirocompo1137]

Listen the ARRAU Phillips record of this Sonata and....tell me about it !!!!!

[@Yhiith]

Mirko Carosella pork god too