Chopin Nocturne No 13 C Minor Myra Hess Rec 1948

This is a transcendental performance. Transcribed from a live 1948 radio recital,, I know of no other recorded interpretation that surpasses, or perhaps, even equals, Myra Hess's conception of this work

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[racher7]

you might want to include in the title of your video: Op. 48 No. 1...cuz i was looking for the Hess version of this nocturne and didn't think it was this. clicked on it anyway and well, it's the one i was looking for!

[Beckmesser2]

I have added the opus and number to the tags. Thank you.

[soami2u]

Magnificent! To my knowledge, Dame Myra didn't play a lot of Chopin, but she was such a consummate musician that one wishes she had played and recorded more. At first I thought her tempo too slow, but now I see the logic and integrity in this performance. The chorale-like "B" section is wonderful; she maintains the line through all the octaves, and doesn't abuse rubato, unlike the vapid and mannered approach of some old-timey pianists like Paderewski. 5 stars--I'd give it 6 if I could!!!

[Beckmesser2]

On page 99 of Marian McKennas, Myra Hess, a Portrait, she writes, Of all of the magnificent executants of the golden age of pianists produced it was Paderewski Myra idolized above all the rest.

[EuropeanArchive]

Thanks. Does someone have by any chance Myra Hess her performance of John Field's 4th Nocturne, from the Columbia "ear and eye" music history set?

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[Beckmesser2]

I have placed the Hess recording on my channel

[truecrypt]

Monumental, larger than life performance!

[soami2u]

STUNNING is the word!

[palmerplantagenet]

Myra Hess' monumental largesse is similar to Ethel Leginska's in this piece. Perhaps except for the chorale section, which Leginska said Anton Rubinstein could make hearers weep from his prayerful tone, rolling the broken chords with quiet majesty. Both Hess and Leginska occasionally pulled back grand climactic points to an instant inverted dynamic of piano. Makes me think of sobbing amidst unsettled hysteria. And visions of Pere Lachaise.

[acortot]

@soami2u rubato abuse is highly misunderstood and overdiagnosed IMO

[420sexybitch420]

This is the greatest interpretation of this piece ever

[MrJbhg]

Wonderful rendition, but still owes a lot to that of, for instance, Guiomar Novaes.

[seremerow]

@samhtliu

That's so nice to hear your agreement with me.

Her playing is full of thoughts that build up the possibility to make us review and rethink.

The soud contains deep,light,heavy,storial...all kinds of expressions of piano playing.

I believe she's a great teacher,musician and artist.

She also play an important role in British's piano playing.

Anyway,Hess is so amazing.

That's pitty that tthe amount of her playing on youtube is too few to know her.

[chopinopus28]

@Beckmesser2 i wouldn't say surpass but among with hess i would say gilels recording from 1949 which is on a video here on you tube and of yakov flier, unfortunately not avaliable.

[musicist001]

Are you sure that this composition was playing by Myra Hess and not by Chopin?

[townsendjean]

What a remarkable performance of a complicated work whose chief subject is a masterly expression of a great powerful grief ... a cry of deepest anguish. There are fevers and cold sweats in this music and Hess renders it almost as if in a somnambulant daze, with a tremulous delicacy of intensity, as if it were a living thing whose nerves were being operated upon, where every touch might mean life or death.