Alfred Brendel and Simply Quartet - Lecture Recital Schubert

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3 жыл бұрын

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@themanontheedge2243 3 жыл бұрын

I've followed your work from many years. It's an honor to see you again sir.

@sirsamfay99 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Mr Brendel ,I last saw you rehearsing the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale in 1987. You signed my Turnabout record called Beethoven Vignettes and handed me back your copy of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto and walked out of the door with my record. We did swap outside the door. I still have the record.

@ProfDrislane 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful commentary by Brendel! In addition to his observation of the whole tone scale in the first movement (not a joke, unlike its use by Mozart in his "Musical Joke"), the last movement contains an extraordinary use of the descending octatonic scale in the viola just before the final "war" between Bb and B natural! Schubert was indeed "ahead of his time" as the old cliché goes!

@giandomenicogalluzzi7015 3 жыл бұрын

l' ENSEMBRE PREFERITO DAI COMPOSITORI PER SPERIMENTARE ED INNOVARE! GRAZIE MILLE PER IL FILMATO, BRAVI!

@eamonnmorris5331 3 жыл бұрын

He has looked much the same for years ... I watched his Liszt B minor Sonata a week ago and assumed it was recent - it's 3 years ago, apparently. Now, here he suddenly looks much older ... though much more stylishly dressed, I must say. I hope he is in good health. I first heard him in his recording of Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 with St Martin in The Fields (early 1980s). I loved it so much I learned how to play it over the course of a year or more. He opened up Mozart for me!

@VladVexler 3 жыл бұрын

Alfred’s masterclass on the Liszt sonata was 9 years ago. Lovely he opened up Mozart for you.

@eamonnmorris5331 3 жыл бұрын

@@VladVexler Yeah that makes more sense - 9 years

@gurthbruins6411 3 жыл бұрын

Outclasses everything

@adrianwright8685 3 жыл бұрын

21:06 full q starts here

@militaryandemergencyservic3286 2 жыл бұрын

I think Mr Brendel might have got some of his info from Gingerich's excellent book: 'Schubert's Beethoven Project'

@JSMatteson 3 жыл бұрын

4:36 vs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_music

@ProfDrislane 3 жыл бұрын

Listening again to Mr. Brendel's commentary, I have to say that there are a few points worthy of further consideration. In particular his lumping together of the Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn quartets, when only the latter (arguably) show real mastery of the medium. Brendel seems to have a "chrono-centric" view of music, where Beethoven's and Schubert's quartets are to be more highly prized than other works due to their being more "audacious," or, by implication, "modern." This is a rather strange notion, which harks back to 19th century thinking. If we were to follow it to its logical conclusion, we would be found making statements such as, "After Beethoven, all symphonies must be choral," or, "after Bach, nothing short of contrapuntal mastery including daring chromaticism can be countenanced in keyboard music." Perhaps Beethoven should have been informed that after the Fugue was written from his Op.106, that he was now required to maintain similar or greater levels of "modern dissonance" in his subsequent works? Or perhaps we might declare that Pictures at an Exhibition, with all its "audacity," has "replaced" the need for "old fashioned" forms like the fugue and sonata Allegro? Mr. Brendel is a great thinker, but I feel he needs to jettison the "19th century" on this one..

@cellotennis 3 жыл бұрын

respectfully disagree... " when only the latter [Mendelssohn] (arguably) show real mastery of the medium..." no comment for the Schumann quartets [giggle], but the 3 Brahms quartets are absolutely top compositions, albeit along a more traditional path. and his opinion about late Beethoven and Schubert is based on their merits - audacious, modern, groundbreaking in construction and harmonies - certainly not "19th century chrono-centric"... late Beethovens sound modern even today... yes, he IS a great thinker in all walks of art and we can certainly try to argue with him - with caution and great humility...[wink-wink]

@ProfDrislane 3 жыл бұрын

@@cellotennis By "mastery of the medium," I meant idiomatic treatment of the quartet of instruments. Clearly Mendelssohn is the master here as compared with Schumann and Brahms. As for what is "modern," this is highly subjective, and subject to change. Just look at changing tastes. Please carefully read what I said about Beethoven's Op.106, Bach, etc. No man is a god, and that includes Mr. Brendel, much as I admire many of his contributions to music as performer and writer. By "chrono-centric," I meant the idea that "audacity" or perceived "modernness" is an odd way to aesthetically appraise music; it simply privileges music which sounds more like music of the 20th Century. We're in the 21st the last time I checked...There is much in Schubert and Beethoven which is "traditional." As I think Debussy pointed out: "To be completely original, would mean to be incomprehensible." So if we are fixated on "audacity/modernness" an awful lot of cutting and pasting would have to be performed on Beethoven and Schubert's works. I sometimes do audio editing..maybe I could create a "Musical Joke" in hommage to Mozart: HIS musical joke ends with a Stravinsky-esqe chord, and elsewhere features the whole tone scale! Audacity don't you know! I wonder why this work of Mozart isn't more talked about, to borrow from Oscar Wilde..