Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Sonata 27, Op 90, mvt. 2

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Beethoven Piano Sonata 27 in E minor, op 90

filmed the year of Beethoven's bicentennial, 1970, in a studio at the ORTF, January 19. Kempff (November 25, 1895 -- May 23, 1991) was 75 years old.

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  • When Kempff plays, he has a tendency to look before himself. I wonder what it is that he sees when he is playing. Is it another world? Is it the future? Is it the past? Whatever it is, I am sure it's beautiful. Kempff, if it weren't for you, I don't believe this sonata could have ever been played this beautifully.

  • That's what I do call "feel the music"! awesome!

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  • Great touch, great pedal but he doesn't respect the original text, some sf, f, and p aren't right.

  • I don't think the pianist should use the soft pedal at the beginning as it makes the sound bluring

  • this old man always looks sooo mild and is so into the whole music plays the piano~~

  • Beethoven is running out of ideas.

  • ehm wohne in leipzig

  • @sjmmrcrdd I guess that means that the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata is easy too...

  • @ShinatoKawasaki hes just showing that he doesnt have to look at the piano when he plays simple

  • What must it be like to play a sonata you have been playing for fifty years? I cannot possibly imagine what he was thinking during his (characteristically beautiful) performance.

    Have to say Kempff is my favorite single interpreter of Beethoven's sonatas. I prefer Horowitz for the Waldstein and Appassionata, but Kempff's Op.90, Moonlight, Hammerklavier, and Tempest are beyond repute. What a great classicist.

  • @ShinatoKawasaki he is seeing Ludwig V standing before him frowning outwardly, inwardly soul bursting at the love thats translated through this mans own love of his work and its medium.

  • his peaceful eyes ... i wonder why he lived 95 years. If i would be God i would make him immortal

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