Rosita Renard: Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses

From her late career highlight - Carnegie Hall Recital 1949
Rosita Renard(1894-1949), a senior condisciple and compatriot of Claudio Arrau

[@claudewiwiamjertes2122]

la mejor interpretacion de esta pieza musical de Mendelssohn que existe. Rosita demuestra otra vez, que esta por encima de cualquier pianista, del pasado o del presente...

[@ellenjoh]

Of all the recordings on You Tubes, she captures the spirit of Mendelssohn. I am particularly in love with the 4th variation.

[@thepianist6276]

Wahrhaft künstlerisches, atemberaubendes, magisches Klavierspiel. So etwas gibt es heute im Konzertsaal nicht mehr.

[@ariannaamaducci760]

ho ascoltato questo medesimo pezzo dell'elegante virtuoso del piano Mendelson, suonato anche da Brendel, Zimmermann e Richter.. sono tutti costoro grandi maestri ed è molto difficile che io possa trovare in loro dei difetti o delle carenze ma ho notato che Rosita Renard suona questo pezzo con mascolina energia e foga mentre Brendel con femminile precisione e leggerezza.. amo molto la tecnica di Brendel e trovo che, per suonare Mendelson, che era un elegante e un Maestro di grande olimpica serenità - (Casella ne Il Pianoforte ) - sia assai più calibrato ed in tono... con mio modestissimo parere.. e ringrazio chi ha postato questo brano e tutti questi grandi Maestri che l'hanno eseguito... I heard this same virtuous elegant piece of Mendelssohn piano also sounded by Brendel, Richter and Zimmermann .. are all these great teachers and it is very difficult that I can find in them some defects or deficiencies but I noticed that Rosita Renard plays this piece with masculine energy and enthusiasm while Brendel with feminine precision and lightness .. very love of Brendel technique and I find that, for playing Mendelson, who was an elegant and a great Master in Olympian serenity - ( Casella in Il Pianoforte ) - is much more calibrated and in tune..... with my modest opinion ... .. and I thank those who posted this piece and all these great Masters who have performed ...

[@josegiraldi]

La mejor e inigualable interpretacion desta piesa!!!

[@juskisiberiano]

Bravo!, and thank you so much for posting this! Of course my opinion can be quite wrong, but Rosita's rendering of these Mendelssohn's Variations is the only one I have heard that has, for me, a flavor of J. S. Bach in it, and if I recall well and Felix was the one that revived great Bach's music in the middle of the Romantic period, it would be not much wonder that this work really has deliberate reminiscences of Bach, and Rosita was the one to feel it and made them to surface.

[@ElenaKuschnerovapianist]

A high-caliber interpretation and very clean for a live performance of such an intensity.

[@JamesVaughan]

You can tell from this performance that she was a great pianist...a strong personality, backed by a wonderfully fluent and supple technique. It is too bad she didn't perform more and have a longer life...she must have been a wonderful teacher

[@juskisiberiano]

The mix, that I perceive, or feel, of both sober classic baroque accents and sober romantic sentiment in the work and the rendering, makes me appreciate both, extremely. No other one rendering I know, by so very far, makes hear so, so good this work, for me. Thank you very much again, you not only made my day, nor my week, but enhanced my life. Excuse the verbiage, but I really got carried away hearing this.

[@MScJorgePoveda]

Alumna de Martin Krause, quien también fue preceptor del célebre pianista chileno Claudio Arrau. No se sabe por recomendación de quién Rosita llegó a estudiar con Krause, quien había sido discípulo de Carl Reinecke y de Franz Liszt. Como Liszt había estudiado con Carl Czerny, y este, a su vez, con Beethoven, la estirpe pianística de Rosita Renard es, por demás, ilustre: Beethoven, Czerny, Liszt, Krause, Renard. Tras algún tiempo, el gobierno de Chile suspendió la beca de estudios de Rosita, hecho que fue solucionado por Krause, quien efectuó los trámites para inscribirla en calidad de alumna honoraria. Los progresos musicales de la joven chilena tuvieron tal impacto en sus maestros alemanes que el 29 de junio de 1913 se le concedió, «en atención a su sobresaliente desempeño como pianista», el diploma de honor al mejor alumno del Conservatorio, galardón que no se había entregado sino en una sola ocasión antes de ella. Poco tiempo más tarde, se graduó como intérprete en piano. Además, se hizo acreedora del premio Liszt y de la beca Mendelsohn.Sic. Wikipedia

[@pianopera]

Great post, wonderful playing! I had never heard of her before, but I will add her immediately to my "great female pianists of the past" playlist! ;-)

[@wallyssalas]

Another great chilean pianist of glorious past. Pity her career was cut unfairly short only four months after her magnificent Carnegie Hall appearance on the 19th of January 1949, from which this recording was taken. This live interpretation of Félix Mendelssohn's Variations Sérieuses, in D Minor, Opus 54, is indeed a very passionate and dedicated rendition by Rosita Renard, a disciplined pianist who could have reached as much artistic perfection, fame and glory as her compatriot and condisciple Maestro Claudio Arrau.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Arrau is boring, Rosita is boiling

[@dejanstevanic5408]

TY

[@gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading this.

[@глебмаматов-х8ч]

Моё сердце принадлежит вам, прекрасная Розита!

[@EupolisEupolitan]

I have the 2cd set of her recordings collected, kinda regret the absence of them as this is the only track available at the moment.

[@snaaptaker]

I use the word "great" very carefully. I use it here.

[@EupolisEupolitan]

More rarae aves to come, Renard won't be the last.

[@andynew2]

Does anyone know if she recorded a few rescords of popular music in the early thirties under the name of "Renara".?

[@josephlaredo5272]

Certainly playing of great passion and élan, but it's a fairly broad brush approach and rather scrappy at times (especially at the end). Is it "better" than Richter's performance, as several claim? Is Bordeaux better than Burgundy? Is Raphael better than Michelangelo? Both have their beauties and their faults. Let's enjoy the former and forgive the latter. Thanks for posting.

[@EupolisEupolitan]

Yes, the flowing Danube with limpidity.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

8:17 .... Richter .... ? Beautiful playing , but a heavy russian train . Listen to this , this is crazy passion ....

[@otnaug4714]

passionate and beautiful playing. but listening to this... it was never able to become the full heavy black russian train that richter's was. (j/k)

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

A heavy russian train , but going very fast , that's true ..... but Rosita is no more on the rails ... and this is her greatness

[@feno5383]

Richter is the best

[@глебмаматов-х8ч]

No, no and no! In this variations Rosita is the best interpreter.

[@_PROCLUS]

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