Mr. Brendel is simply the best! For me it’s the best interpretation of this marvelous Mozart’s wonderful work. Ich könnte dies in die Ewigkeit hinein hören und Gott nur dankbar sein, dass er seiner Schöpfung solche wunderbare Gaben verleiht. Herr Brendel, was für ein Segen du bist für uns und wie gesegnet du bist. Thanks für sharing es auf KZread! Love you KZread!

It was so precious to be there live. Alfred’s reading of the middle movement in the last few months of his career was extraordinary and finally realised the work. Composed in 1777 it wasn’t played well enough until 2008.

@kedemberger8773

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to agree. It's a miraculous work and doesnt get many really fine performancees. You need a long career to realize what Mozart wrote at 21 I believe? There's also a very fine version with Haskil live and another which I like very much with Pires VPO and Gardiner.

Simply Sublime!! Bravo Alfred Brendel and The VPO...

Simply the best pianist in our time.

@VladVexler

3 жыл бұрын

Truth

Thanks for this posting. I'll never forget this wonderful farewell performance. So impressed. Alfred...great.

Wonderful performance of an extraordinary piano concerto!

THANK YOU for uploading this performance. Alfred at his best. I have a recording of Alfred playing this in his complete CD set of Mozart piano concerti. Obviously my copy is not this performance. In the notes in this set, he calls this concerto a "wonder of wonders and that it is the first Mature masterpiece in Mozart's piano concerto genre. The heart breaking second movement is monumental. One of my favorites, and this live farewell performance is a treasure!

@kedemberger8773

6 жыл бұрын

The whole double CD set is a gem. Wonderful Schubert 960 and perhaps the highlight is Haydn Variations in f minor which I also uploaded

@VladVexler

3 жыл бұрын

Having recording the 271 with Mackerras in 2002, Alfred felt he had to come back to it, as he felt the piece and esp the middle movt could be more deeply realised.

@nicholaskadar3333

3 жыл бұрын

Once you've heard the incomparable Richter play this concerto it's tough to listen to this. As my German piano teacher once said to me "Alles in Kunst ist eine frage von Technik". Now, there is more, of course, which is why many virtuosos are not great artists, and its why Richter is not known as a virtuoso although that is precisely what he was - only his phrasing, coloring are those of a supreme artist. Compare the Brendel's trills that introduce the melody in the slow movement with Richter's, and his inability to bring out the line in the melody like Richter. This is not meant to be mean to Brendel, it's just that once you've heard Richter play a piece you cannot hear it any other way.

@moby628

Жыл бұрын

@@nicholaskadar3333 I disagree. Inability to sustain the line? Hardly. Brendel does this magnificently even with a slightly slower tempo. There is more than one way! Ha ha each to his own :) Cheers

Brendel is matchless at making sense out of every part and making it relate to the whole. This takes real interpretative genius. Most pianists can only just play the notes evenly, some make sense of little bits but thise bits do not fit into an entire landscape. Only Murray Perahia approaches Brendel.

great playing and a great piano too

Marvelous.......

Is this the registration of MV 18 12 2008?

28:03

Mozart had no sustain pedal on his cembalo, so we'll never know HOW he intended the opening bars to be played. Obnoxious staccato as by Richter & friends, potato as here et.al. or lovingly singing with sustain pedal as it sounds best by eg Barenboim.