WILHELM KEMPFF PLAYS SCHUMANN FANTASIE OP 17 PART 1 OF 4

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

I hate people who put thumbnails from live performance to catch more views

[GeneralKuno]

@newFranzFerencLiszt And your point is?

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@GeneralKuno don't do that, easy.. isn't it?

[fquesada]

Oh yes, I agree. I consider the Horowitz rendition the best of all. The sound of the inner voices!

[callasnuts]

Dont forget Horowitz from Carnegie!

[schonklang]

Grande Guglielmo!!

[sch8mid]

Look at his video here on YTube : Träumerei Schumann Kempff

Noone played it better ever

[pianoguru516]

Kempff understands the layers of color/contrast in this piece. He allows it to breath. He also orchestrates within Germanic form/style. Clear vision of Schumann's Romanticism.

[301250]

Kempff just doesn't seem to have the equipment for works that require execution on an epic or grand scale in which intensity of feeling and passion (as this love-poem demands seeing that here is Schumann declaring his love for Clara) is de riguer.

[demosj]

His playing seems rather timid.

[musikgeni]

I asked because Kempff didnt record so much in the seventies when he was already in his eighties. but the sound is very good.

[prodesica]

@musikgeni The date is 1971.

[fquesada]

Musikgeni, this is form a Deutsche Gramophon recording with no date on it. As far as I can remember, my father purchased the record not earlier than the seventies. I don't think this is from the sixties, let alone the fifties.

[musikgeni]

is this recording from the sixties or fifties?