Grumiaux and Haskill play Mozart Sonata K526 (1/3)

[conaccento]

Thanks, a remembrance from a time when playing music was still about expressing the music itself. Forget todays impressive sounds and making yourself as interesting or odd as possible. We have two Lp:s with them, a treasure.

[marian444]

Beautiful!!!

[MrConvivator]

Danke, habe Link gesetzt

[knubir]

Merveilleux! When people try to make a ranking of violinists, Grumiaux is often forgotten. Heyfetz, Menhuin, David Oistrakh, Milstein, Isaac Stern, they are all different. Grumiaux har always been my favorite as benchmark for Mozarts concertos. Subjective of course. We all have preferences. The quality of his tecnique and vibrato, and the sound of his violin (Strad ex Grumiaux) and Haskil on piano. Thanks. Listen to Mozart concerto no 3 with Grumiaux.

[Deesade86]

Fantastic performances

[MegaBenoli]

Ich habe diese Aufnahme über 20 Jahre nicht gehört und bin erstaunt und froh, dass sie sich, trotz allen historischen "Erkenntnissen" immer noch als einer der schönsten und gültigsten Aufnahmen dieser Musik erweist. 

[TokyoDoggyDog]

This reminds me of Margueritte Long and Jacques Thibaud recording. Both (Haskil and Long) are extremely good.

[nicolotar]

Thank you so much for posting this . your work value is better than years of prayers . I often wonder what happened to that sound they had .

[NYASA1000]

i love his performance, which is like a 'spring stream'.

[violinhunter2]

Fabulous recording - graceful, elegant, exquisite. What wonderful artists these two great musicians were! Thank you!!

[StephenChin1]

There is a difference between performers of the pre- & post-CD generations.

Pre-CDs are quite perfect plus not much more. Post-CDs are quite perfect plus JOY.

[gerryrains]

Clara Haskil is always superb and her Mozart is incredible. Grumiaux was always extremely good, but given Haskil's skills I feel that she would have done better to recruit a better violinist. Still, as a pair, their Mozart is unchallenged. It's a shame that David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin didn't collaborate on this cycle - their boxed set of the Beethoven violin sonatas is the best complete set available. Some versions of individual sonatas may be better than one of theirs, but the set is A+.

[moldyoreo]

Grumiaux for Mozart: nobody better.

[jmgasto]

Arthur Grumiaux is the best violinst ever!

He always sounds elegant and modern, always!

[jcfbell3001]

exactly, well said...he's so "listenable"

[dgmrrtt]

This is nice playing. My favorite recording of this piece is with Thibaud and Long. Their performance is more energetic for my taste and their style is such that cannot be copied, imitated or reproduced.

[canxbuster12]

thank you for loading this...2 brilliant musicians

[comic4relief]

I'm sorry, I cannot answer your question about Sophie Mutter; but might ask, do you mean that maybe she recorded it ahead, for the year 2056?

[comic4relief]

Excuse me. Anne Sophie Mutter.--- Also, I'm just curious about what we're hearing: Is this recording out of your own collection? Is it an out-of-print LP? If so, that's awesome. I'm not familiar with these duos at all, as they are (perhaps) comparatively obscure. Are we being treated?

[ellandelachapelle]

Look at 1:15. The Three Masters! (from left Menuhin, Grumiaux, Ojstrach.) (I wonder what they played?)

[elufologo]

It takes one to know one! Clara Haskill was a quiet reclusive woman who intimated with no one, but Grumiaux. They admired each other greatly. Her tragic death deeply affected maestro Grumiaux.

[ellandelachapelle]

Yes but she was a friend of pianist Dinu Lipatti too! (her compatriot.) He used to call her Clarinette! :-D

[elufologo]

I didn't know that, thanks so much! That is very likely, and musically speaking something obvious, two geniuses of the keyboard, from Romania should have made good friends. Best regards, from Quito, Ecuador, elufologo

[jreemer]

the recordings of Cho Liang Lin and Francescatti are equally sublime playing Mozart.

[ernent]

For anyone in doubt (or not): this is not only the greatest of all violin sonatas there's also nothing more profound in all music than its slow movement.

btw there's a recording of K. 481 with Grumiaux playing both instruments (and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he did it simultaneously). It would be nice if someone who has it could upload it too.

[chad410]

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