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

I've always believed Mozart's genius is in his piano music and the violin sonatas are not my favorite but I wanted to upload this to give everyone a taste of the best recordings available of these sonatas. It is my opinion that the best Mozart Sonatas ever recorded were made by Grumiaux / Haskill, after doing a bit of research I found out that the following Mozart sonatas recorded by Grumiaux/Haskill are in print:

K 301, 304, 376, 378, 454

but not

K 526

My favorite is 454 and I was going to upload that, but it is in print so I wont upload it and since the 526 with Haskill is out of print i decided it is ok to upload. Note that someone put up a video of Grumiaux playing this with Kelin (to which this is a video response) but not with Haskill.

I encourage everyone to get all the recordings of Grumiaux with Haskill and anything Grumiaux recorded of Mozart for that matter, no one ever did better with Mozart and I doubt anyone ever will. This is of course my opinion which is of yours subjective and not fact, it is the responsibility of every musician (an any appreciator of fine music) to decide what a performance means to them and how a piece of music should be played whether its them playing or someone else, sometimes listening to someone else play something can change your perception of how the should can or should be shaped. I would also like to mention there is a dvd of the lovely Anne Sophie Mutter playing all Mozart concertos, sonatas and trios on dvd that is worth investigating, i suspect it was recorded for the 300th anniversary of Mozart's birth if Im not mistaken (anyone care to confirm this?)

I have uploaded rare out of print and unreleased recordings that are difficult to find, I hope you like them.

Since they are so difficult to find no one should mind me uploading them, if you have issues with me uploading them please send me a message and I will remove them.

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• grumiaux
• mozart

[violinhunter2]

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

[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.

[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 .

[jcfbell3001]

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

[NYASA1000]

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