Maria Yudina plays Schubert Impromptu As-dur Op. 142 No. 2

Just FYI. Both Yudina and Sofronitsky studied with the same Great teacher - Leonid Nikolaev. He was not well known outside of Russia and was the #1 in St. Petersburg. Dmitri Shostakovich was also his student...

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[PortaProHPH]

This is definately the worst interpretation of this piece i ever heard. It's really so exaggerated i can hardly listen to it. the record sucks too

[truecrypt]

Well... often the first reaction to something new and unusual is fear and aggression. Your comment is a good example of it.

[ellandelachapelle]

I just meant that this Impromptu is a rather unsophisticated piece! (the B major sonata though is better suited for this grand dramatic playing.)

[truecrypt]

"rather unsophisticated..."

Sometimes I have a very strange feeling - someone would say a relatively correct thing and I still can't accept it...

[ellandelachapelle]

Frankly, I think she didn´t quite understand Schubert´s simplicuty! (she dramatizes him.)(this kind of playing is of course perfect for Beethoven.) About Volkov: I think he stole my idea about the relationship between Stalin and Shostakovitch! (I wrote an article about "The King and his jester". And a year later his book about S. and S. appeared!)(well well we musicologists have to be generous. And inspire each other!)(I just wish he wouldn´t pretend I don´t exist...)

[truecrypt]

Why do you think Yudina didn't understand Schubert's "simplicity"? It's a bold statement and would be nice to hear any justification for such one.

[Mortimer123]

ellandelachapelle - you may not know this: in 1968, the then 86-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus had a stroke onstage (in the middle of Beethoven's op. 31 no. 3). He could still function, but he knew a catastrophe had occurred. He took a brief break, then played two pieces: first Schumann's "Warum?" and then this Schubert Impromptu. It was the last thing he ever played. He died two days later. Ask yourself: Why did this great man depart from his instrument, from music, from his life, with this piece?

[bach5861]

punctire is too sharp. Middle part is too fast.

[paulostroff99]

TY T,C.for posting and gullivior for sharing.

[etiam161036]

Merci!

[rubestuh]

For me, this is one of Yudina's least successful performances.

Yes, it has her power and originality ... but she's really at odds with appropriate Schubert 'style.'

Of course, one can play appropriately in many styles. But sometimes an interpretation runs so counter to the natural grain of the music that one has to rebel.

The style here would better suit Beethoven.

This reminds me of Glenn Gould's Chopin ... just not what the composer, or most listeners, would want to hear.

Arbitrary, I know.

[goodguysdoll]

oh did the piece write itself? don't you think you could have mentioned Schubert in your video title or info section?

[tzjc24]

I like many of Yudina's interpretations, but I don't like this one. I much prefer the way Schiff plays it, for example, in which in becomes a divinely flowing and gentle piece.Of course it's all purely subjective, and I'm glad to see some find beauty in this interpretation. But it's not for me. Such a wonderful piece by Schubert though! I don't think it's simplicity should be cause for it to be under-appreciated as a work - a beautiful work is a beautiful work regardless of the number of notes.

[NotAgain90]

Thanks for uploading this recording, it is so out of the ordinary that it makes some listeners long for the comforts of something they are more used to.

Do you have the Op. 90 Impromptus with Yudina? #1 of that set is my favorite in her rendition but the third is also very good... It would be great to add them to your fine channel.

[NotAgain90]

@seriously111 too bad though, as it is such a boring recording...

[seriously111]

well...it's passionate alright. Still, i think the standard on youtube is the Andras Schiff version.

[goslinga]

I am not sure whether the note values in this playing are quite as the composer wrote them... but when you play at this level you can pretty much do what you want and you probably have no interest in reading the newspaper columns of your critics. A truly great artist.