Alfred Brendel plays Liszt´s sonata in b minor (3rd)

[wayneredhart]

Well, he plays the notes in the right order. Not sure if I could think of any other positives about this though.

[kempff95]

bravo ! this is pure liszt.

[lokopiano]

Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh \so pure.

LOL

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[melvined]

Both Shilloshillos and lokopiano, you two are on the verge if not already in desperate need of sedatives. You two are straight jacket material. It is a youtube video and the two of you have started an all out WAR over a musical piece. Please for the love of meunster, swiss, pepperjeack and everything else holy...PLEASE stop the bickering over Alfred Brendel, before men in little white coats start chasing the two of you with nets! You're both giving me gas!

[shilloshillos]

Sorry you were upset over that. Me too. You may have seen that I tried to stay out of it, but someone wouldn't let go and used very rude and offensive expressions that couldn't be left unanswered. Sorry again to have entered a discussion with that particular moron. I am definitely not going to continue.

[davidgray2]

There's nothing more fucking annoying than these miserable twats on youtube who suggest the most obscure crappy players all the time on the comments pages of videos of real masters. Dickheads.

[TomOwen77]

Greatest interpretation, intellectually as well as physically & sonically, of this masterpiece. Brendel plays with chisellled, granite-like tone & total grasp of the dramatic & cumulative demand of this sonata. Listen to precise cut-and-pedalling in octave ascents/descents, expansive tone in lyrical sections, glittering yet tender filigree. Overall conception and pefrmance places it in a literaray and artistic context for all time along with the best that Goethe and Shakespeare can offer.

[alesiacoxbey09]

@TomOwen77 - well put!

[lokopiano]

The prinicpal limitation of this pisnist is his small understanding of polyphony.

The last part of this Sonata requieres it, and of course he has not the tools to make it.

IS a very rare old LP of one of biggest versions of it. The pianist is Arturo Moreryra Lima A Brasilian who get the third prize ( he really deserved the 1st ) in the Tcahikowsky competition at the end of 60s ( don´t remember exactly the year right now. )Look that Brenedl , he even can´t count the beats . what a bluff.

[koobird]

Brendel's main weakness is his lack of good tone and his stiffness.... I dont know about polyphony..... but otherwise he is a decent pianist

[Haeronthegreat]

The fugue doesn't sound Mephistophelian enough to me. Lacking agitation. His touch in the following section is monotonal as well. Sorry ,but not liking this.

[lokopiano]

Well...........at least it sounds better than his normal plain playing.

It doesn´t mean in anyway this performance is nice.

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[shilloshillos]

Brendel's Liszt is always less virtuosic and more intellectual and musical. Works in the mid to late works, maybe not so much for the etudes, rhapsodies etc. in any case, he is a genius of gigantic proportions.

[lokopiano]

gigantic proportions ?????????? plop ¡¡¡

gigantic masturbation maybe. He never... ever....... had even a great loud sound.

gigantic are the froggie faces he use to make.

lokopiano

[shilloshillos]

You, my friend, are obsessed with your "member". Why don't you go do something about it, to "get it off" your mind. Don't forget to use tissues. Brendel is a great pianist, he got awarded big time for his Liszt. Who are YOU to criticize him. Obviously a nobody with no musical taste or understanding. I am done discussing with you.

[shilloshillos]

You bend over and I'll show you who's gay! Amateur? Don't think so with three degrees in music. But why am I discussing anything with you. You are obviously a moron to think that Brendel is a "low level musician". I'll bet you think Lang Lang is the best pianist. Oh, no, wait maybe its R. Clayderman. Dumbass!

[shilloshillos]

It is apparent to all around here that you are the perfect idiot. My dog knows more music than you.Not only that but you are a psycho as well. You write 'Brendel is the example of low level musician" then you say "Brendel is not a low level musician (learn to read )" . Psycho! Go see a shrink and make EVERYBODY a favor. LEAVE YOUTUBE!

[lokopiano]

Make everybody a favor>

Leave your mom.

lokopiano

[lokopiano]

No ......please .

WONTON or lanlan.....or the same shit , is a piece ofshit.

At least Brendel , despite his pianistic limitations, is really more serious than that fucking shit (wonton).\

lokopiano

[pgjim00]

Chingas a tu puta madre pendejo hijo de puta. es todo lo que tengo que decir imbecil

[punkpoetry]

or it could be that for Mr Brendel playing Lizst entails a different range of associations: one far removed from and not quite as easily verbalized as that pile of shopsoiled cliches to which you adhere in such ardent and categorical a fashion

[punkpoetry]

individual performers might hold to very particular views re which style is appropriate for this or that composer, mind you. I've heard talk of Richter's playing Schubert as though it were Prokofiev; or of Gilels doing a Schumannesque appropriation of Scarlatti etc. your "liszt is liszt" is a fine example of a useless proposition, as it belies your blithe conviction that there is smth out there called "lizst" to which you have unmediated access, and which is forever identical with itself

[punkpoetry]

unjustly harsh criticism imho. it's true that Brendel cannot quite match the grand scale pianism you get from the likes of Horowitz, Gilels, Richter and Argerich; nevertheless, for me, it's teeming with unrepeatable musical insights

[Discerninator]

Well after listening to both, albeit with less than the original high fidelity of the originals, I still like the '81 slightly better, but not as much as I thought I had in the past. But '81's does sound slightly less mannnered and forced , however the '81 final octave section seems slower than the '92 version. The ending on the '81 to me is more otherworldly than the '92 version which is a big plus also, concluding with a beautiful deep throaty gong on the '81 that I really like.

[Discerninator]

Thanks FA. and also GiovanniEMB, I used to have the '81 recording and this one and I thought I preferred it although Brendel says he likes this one, so I'll listen to both tonight and see if that is still my feeling.

[GiovanniEMB]

I put on my channel the old 1981 recording. I am not absolutely a fan but the slow motion of ending octaves is surprising in 1992's version. Musically 1992 sound better and give a better idea of Listz's retoric.

[anfalagu]

Impresionante!!!!!!