Chopin Fantasie Impromptu in C# minor Op. 66 played by Wilhelm Kempff

Kempff broadcast this performance of Chopin's popular Fantasie Impromptu in 1945. It gives the lie to the notion that Kempff always played allegros slowly - or perhaps this is the exception that proves the rule!

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• Chopin
• Fantasie
• Impromptu
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• paulprocopolis

[laurion69]

I cannot understand what has happened in the "coda", at 4:01 in this rendition...

[paulprocopolis]

Since this is a live broadcast, my guess is that Kempff had a brief memory lapse and improvised for a bar or two!

[laurion69]

@paulprocopolis

I think you are right.

Sometimes Kempff, as also Cortot, played false notes...

But we listen to that great interprets beyond their material imperfections, that to say that all we love the spirit of their amazing rendition, don't we? :-)

[paulprocopolis]

@laurion69 Yes, definitely!

[gerryrains]

This is a great post - thanks for your time.

[shela2]

Maestro Kempff,s playing here, was full of nervous energy .he must have been aware of , as he gradually took his place firmly , and still today ,as one of the legends of the piano world.....

[coldgamesLUPIN]

間違えてるけどいいねぇ



[el6caballo6oscuro6]

@laurion69 I agree, it's like "wabisabi" (侘寂) - art is alive and imperfections are what makes life great

[Lity10]

@satyu131089 agreed =P

[ANTiRussia1]

@laurion69 a too very false tone. Also, at 3:52 several false tones.

He generally plays not what Chopen wrote.

[itisjinzo]

I didn't know he played the Impromptu... It's amazingly good. Too bad he died, he should have been immortal. :(

[satyu131089]

great regards to kempff as a pianist...but this piece belongs to arthur rubinstein!!

[killergirls]

My fav Pianist!!