William Kapell Remembered: Part 3 of 3

Part three of a three part documentary about the life of pianist William Kapell.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfl2wiAQ9eI

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ8mpyRf_Uw

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksilp9wfnEI

William Kapell Recital

Category:

Music

Tags:

• william
• kapell
• williamkapell
• documentary
• pianist
• piano

[legatofancier]

What an extraordinary artist! His loss is incaluable. There hasn't been anyone quite like him, possibly not before, and certainly not since.

[uhartchristian]

what a loss that this genious left us in a planecrash. At that time planes were not sure, even rubinstein was in danger sometimes but had the good luck to make it every time ....

Clara Haskil died in a stupid way also... run for a train and missed the stairs... a big loss too.... its more safe today but there are too many things which disturbs a career today. Its not more easy today..... I think even less as the public is no more responsive as it was at that time....

[gonzal0999]

he escuchado mas de 20 versiones del 2 de rachmaninoff y ninguno supera la suya!

[aryolkary]

Either it is what he said, that after many hours of recording he got ''transference'' to get music instead of notes, or simply he was in another class altogether. He is one of the Greatest pianists of All times, he is one of the few models to follow. Thanks for the videos

[smudgepots]

The Bach Partita is a performance in a class of its own. It appears to come from a world at once timeless and totally modern, to be painfully expressive and yet utterly objective, rigorously in time and yet totally flexible. I can't think of anything more poignant and eloquent and it illustrates perfectly his comments about making music and just playing notes. God bless you, William Kapell, you really were too good a pianist and too great a human being to be fully at home in our finite world.

[StPaul1961]

But Mr. Kapell's spirit lives on; in a way we don't lose him.

[mltube]

Horowitz does not strike me as particularly handy, larsnelissen, but Michelangeli did know something about airplanes, I believe.:-)

[larsnelissen]

Horowitz and Michelangeli must have sabotaged the airplane to prevent this growing genius Kapell to endanger their place in the piano world!

[Brianjonestown]

De Niro would have made a hash of it. Better Brad Dourif or Kevin Anderson or even Kevin Kline, once a concert-level pianist himself.

[harriter88]

A young Robert De Niro would have been the perfect casting choice for the life of Kapell.The De Niro of The Last Tycoon,in that he looked like either Willie or Gershwin.Heck their voices even sound alike a certain NY quality.