Franz Schubert - Impromptu d899, No. 1, Wilhelm Kempff

[Cordelophelia]

perfect tempo... This impromptu is very often played too fast... But Kempff does it justice...Thanks for posting!

[auntiepicklebottom]

LoL, He looks like Robin Williams in this picture

[Krissybubbs]

His music is never boring, it flows so naturally on from one melody and line to another. Such beauty is truly admirable, Mr Kempff!

[Seanze329]

I cried when I read your user name. T~T WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO YOU!?!?!?!?

[joaquinveyron]

A masterpiece!!

[kempff95]

lol.  3:52-4:05

beethoven appasaionata.

p.s- fantastic mood!

[cicerone63]

I like Arrau, but every version is a pleasure! than you for post!

[rva25]

I like Schnabel more here..

[yarngleei]

Just personal preference, I like ZImerman's version better on Schubert. I love Kempff's Beethoven though.

[soami2u]

Sublime Schubert playing...this man was was a true artist. His playing had warmth and poetry. The music is laid out for you like a sumptuous carpet, and you hang on to every note. Few artists conveyed the essence of the music like Wilhelm Kempff.

[Lukecash12]

Thank you for correcting me, and i appreciate the insight on a pianist i had not gone too terribly in depth on. I'm afraid i had only gone knee in the information on Kempff thus far.

[PhilipLu3]

and the notes may be correct, but it is not perfect. I don't think that anyone has ever played a perfect piece.

[badu95]

such serenity &calm,nobody can match this.

[jonathantuttle420]

my 1/2 inch speakers aren't really doing it any justice :(

[hellomate639]

Compared to the real thing, virtually nothing does a piece justice...

Steinways and equivalent and even better pianos are unbelievable in person. It's like you've left this earth. Simply one note is like heaven. Then you play a song. Then you play a song beautifully. You just lose all sense of reality around you. It becomes you and the piano and unimaginable bliss.

I've experienced this and can only mostly recall by my intellectual description because it really is unimaginable...

[Lukecash12]

I agree, but i'd rather play a bosendorfer than a steinway, however, god knows when i'd ever get my hands on one.

[fuckyoubugger]

Yes, old Steinways are very good, but Bösendorfer is unsurpassed!

[djrbfm]

@hellomate639

i'll second that.

j.

[gzaenker]

@hellomate639 there is no better piano than the Steinway and Sons

[gzaenker]

@hellomate639 there is no better piano than the Steinway and Sons hellomate i appreciate what you said. I wonder which piano is better than the Steinway?

[hellomate639]

@gzaenker

Bluthner, Fazoli, Bechstein, Bosendorfer and even Yamaha are a few names that seem to compete with Steinway in sound. Only the best made of each can bring that sublime level that's just beyond anything else.

[gzaenker]

@hellomate639 yes, I agree. Of course the concert pianist play on the most refined models. I know the Bechstein sounds very good too, but the Yamaha I think does not come close.

[hellomate639]

@gzaenker

Well, you'd be surprised since I think that they might actually have a series that they make by hand. I remember once I heard a piano that I thought sounded absolutely brilliant and I was surprised to see that it was a Yamaha, since I'm used to the brand being rather dull and uninteresting.

[gzaenker]

@hellomate639 yes, to match the quality of the instrument to the exquisite intention of the composer is truly an art.

[fanniandwads]

Played with such sensitivity, serene and calm, I love this music. Thanks for the video.

[Lukecash12]

Hard to believe he had parkinson's. Sure, some fourteen year old might play the pieces perfect, but not with the loving sound and controlled tone he had. And to think that he could do that with something as hindering as parkinson's. It shows true fanatacism, and the kind of love we all should put into music...

[otterhouse]

The man had a great sense of architecture. Remarkable that in some places, you start to think of a Bach prelude, never heard that in any other performance...

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[malditocalvo]

maravilloso

[AHN5D]

Wilhelm Kempff's playing feels comfortable like my late grandmother. When I listen his recordings, it feels so natural like I've been listened those for a long time before.