Emil von Sauer (1862-1942): Liszt - Etude: "Ricordanza"

[davidrds]

Incredible...He was already almost 80 years old hen he recorded this Etude!

[marcxopoco]

Thank you, Emil Sauer.

[Noshirm]

@JavaCVB Indeed! (:-D)

[Noshirm]

MAGNIFICENT!!! It sounds even better after all this time away - for me, the hallmark of a great performance! Thanks so much all over again!!!

[Noshirm]

Thanks to you for posting this gem, and to Pianopera for highly recommending that I should listen to Von Sauer in this piece. He had sent me a post of Petri's take on it, and I had been raving about his way with it. WELL!! I am now torn - both versions have their own charms. True to his reputation, Von Sauer's approach is unhurried, aristocratic, and utterly exquisite. Petri's is brilliant and glittering. Thank heavens for YT, so that we can listen to these great pianists and learn from them!

[broadwood1830]

I think: he was nearest to his teacher liszt. My own teacher, Ernst Gröschel was a very well known pupil of Emil von Sauer and his touch was like we can hear there but never at todays pianists.

[kreutzo1]

A real miracle!

[paulostroff99]

Magnificent! Bravo! TY.

[65attila]

@paulostroff99

Sauer is wonderful in this and the other music he recorded of Liszt . His tone is like a magnificent rainbow and his phrasing so varied and intresting.

Thank you for sharing and to d60944 for posting.

Regards-John

[Fernandgem]

@65attila he had the best teacher ever he could wish

[d60944]

Thank you. Now corrected. Must have copied and pasted the raw text from another video and overlooked to update that fragment of text.

[gerardbedecarter]

I have a CD of this piece played by XAVER SCHARWENKA on a WELTE ROLL played back on a 1922 Steinway-Welte upright piano. Timing: 9:04. Scharwenka attended Liszt's Weimar masterclasses but was not, it seems, a Liszt pupil, more a musical colleague. The CD is one of a 4 CD set of roll recordings by LISZT DISCIPLES issued and sold by Wensleydale Press 165/137 Victoria Street, Ashfield NSW 2131 Sydney Australia.

This piece has an old-fashioned charm and nostalgia.

[vulcanswork]

Beautiful.

[aardvaark069]

what a great performance. what an aristocrat! what sentiment!

[smithsherman]

This has been a lifetime favorite performance for me.I love the constant accelerandi punctuating every phrases into a marvelously

Whimsical yet nostalgic gestural affectivity.

I love the duality juxtapostion of the taste of Whimsicality with Bitter regret rolling around the edges leaving refined complexity on the pallet.

[EPsuperFan]

always liked this one, thx