Yes, was.But who is loved by gods, he is supposed to die young. I am sitting at the city library in Beer Sheva, listening to this genious music, while studying. Wonderful.

Well said

Mozart died aged 35. Thank the Gods they left us, to kmagine is lovely

Imagine more 31 years living...

I can't imagine. He was one heck of a tune smith

I agree

Nah, they are listening to Bad Bunny I'm afraid. To listen to this magnificent pianist is like a spirtual experience but see, humanity is lost today. I hope there are lots of Johnatan Livingston Seagulls amongst us who reject the music trash of today.

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Yes a lot of young kids get it handed to them on a plate and are then seen as geniuses? They have best teaching best pianos etc etc so it's easier

Like you I went to a Brendel concert when I was a teenager and it affected me deeply. Several times during the concert I realised that I was holding my breath and had to remind myself to start breathing again!

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Thanks so much for this! :)

Thank u so much!

Thanks!

Thank you , again!❤

Absolute chad

agree

I’m also his fans for over 30 years, but when it comes to Schubert’s Impromptus, I much preferred Radu Lupo’s playing !

No danger of hyperbole, Sublime!

What a cliché, what a blabla

Have you seen the Schiff video of no 2 and 3?

Actually, a Bit of coughing, rustling of clothes underlines the Performance. I like it that way.

@@maxfochtmann9576 You're kidding!

I agree!!!

Chopin would have agreed too with that!

And I loved Gould’s humming but the knuckleheads cut it out of the recently issued Goldberg Variations.

About a million years ago I heard a recital with Brendel playing late Schubert sonatas. It was an odd experience. Mr. Brendel walked on to the stage and was met by a Bosendorfer that seemed to be about 50 feet long. He sat down at the might beast and began to play and as he played the piano disappeared, then Brendel disappeared, and finally the stage and the audience disappeared. Each of us was left utterly alone with the towering genius and the sublime music of little Franz Schubert.

Agree 💙

And Mozart.

I'm addicted to both. They are great heroes in the world of music.

Jae-young Seo agree

Brendel is one of my favorite pianists

I hope you have been blessed enough to also listen to the one and only Artur Rubinstein! I'm too young to ever been able to have attended any of his many concerts! *how sad*

Very difficult to say and judge as a violonist player, but i like it very much ! Fb: Emmanuel Pellaton

So wonderful Christina. ThanK you for sharing

Yes, we take it for granted those things you mention sight ahd hearing. A friend of mine can't hear in one ear and he is 60. Music is my life, I mean it is my distraction, my hobby my world that without hearing I would have no pleasure of enjoying. Beethoven sadly lost his and even though he did he gave us the 9th symphony.

Brendel's fingers glide over the keyboard, interpreting Schubert with a restrained passion that does not overwhelm the listener and makes you want to hear it again and again.

Daniel Grum at these awful times when we all we hear is Trump, what a treat to retreat to wonderful Brendel and Schubert

Joseph Owens Alfred brendel beethoven rondo

Joseph Owens mbach

....one of the top 10 living w/ Mitsuko Uchida.... and 8 others, you choose! ; )

Jean Wenn es langweilig ist,meint doch Dir geht es gut?? Besser als Leiden oder?? It’s always better us suffering!!😅😅😲🤷‍♀️ 🙏💜🙏 😍😍🌹

Technically, he's not "Sir Alfred" as he's not (as far as I can tell) a British citizen so his KBE is an honourary knighthood.

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+Linda Karus stimmt! Magnifico!

Linda Karus Very difficult to say and judge as a violonist player, but i like it very much ! Fb: Emmanuel Pellaton

Well.... that is simply amazing....being able to convey such subtle emotional shifts through the medium of music...who should we thank? Schubert or Brendel....probably.y both!

And bravo Franz!

chapeau claque!

Radu lupu

I would not go as far as that. But Brendel is in the tradition of Vienna. Schubert was borne and lived there. Just imagine Vienna at the early 19. Century, the horses and carriages rattling on the pavement, the sounds of nature in the woodland behind the town, Schubert walking in the street, men with high hats and so on. He put into notes, what he perceived around him.

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Check this performance out, if you enjoyed this rendition of Schubert

@@erandolph84 this was lost

I wouldn't go that far, but he is my favorite for the Schubert improptus.

Titus Tielens my Father did the same. And, 30 years later, I too am still listening. How blessed we were to have fathers who gave us this gift.

Cassette Tape Players are the best. Alle the Pressing, rewinding, Handling the cassetes, pure pleasure. A pity, MC with classical music are difficult to obtain today.

Titus Tielens Wow, I have exactly the same experience. Father, car casette player, Brendel playing schubert’s impromptus” Amazing

@@john_mckinney Wow, that is indeed amazing. And Schubert managed to pull this off long after his death.

I bought this disk of Brendel when I was student in 1982. I turned it grey. I tried to play it myself, but it was 35 years later, that I succeeded to play one. I hope that my sun also will play this! He plays now the fast movement of the moonshine donate of Beethoven

One of my all time favorite pieces heard for piano and one of my favorites to play too.

I was lucky enough to see him play twice, both at the BBC Proms: Beethoven's fourth concerto in 1998 and his fifth in 2004, which was Brendel's last live broadcast (so also his last Prom). I'll always remember how humble he seemd while accepting the audience's applause -- he seemed genuinely flattered by it and had something of a look of, "Yes, yes, that's very kind but all I did was play the piano a bit." And then he played the first of the Schubert Drei Klavierücke (D946) as an encore and it was over.

Mr Brendel was born in our town, Zagreb-Croatia, but second world war was making a lot, a lot damage, not only in our souls, but in art and music generaly.

+Gijsbert X Thank you!!!

+Gijsbert X Gracias!

You are welcome!

Thank you!

you are an awesome person!

I'm not that sure about it. I'm very convinced Wilhelm Furtwängler, Gerald Moore or Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had at least an equally profound knowledge of Schubert (not Shubert)! I could also add others like Rubinstein and Wunderlich. Form the living pianists I even prefer Krystian Zimerman on the 8 Impromptus! This comes closer to Furtwängler's interpretation of Schubert's symphonies! :D Don't get me wrong I grew up with the interpretation of Schnabel, Edwin Fischer (Brendel's teacher) and Alfred Brendel. They are still excellent. But I always prefered Artur Rubinstein on the few impromptus he recorded! Until Krystian Zimerman's recording completely blew me away! :D

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Brendel is certainly a remarkable Schubert interpreter and wonderful to experience live. But there is a young French pianist who has a different and yet deep empathy for Schubert and that is David Fray. Find him here in youtube. Bliss!

That's how we are! 🤫

+Barry Mennen My dad knows him too, he's my goto pianist for many recordings.

I grew up listening to Brendel and I still think he’s the best for Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. I’ve played these impromptus and they are masterpieces.

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Omg, thanks for this. I was watching the video and thinking to myself that his hands look huge over that keyboard! Even Horowitz when playing Impromptu no.3 did so with a stretched hand.

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Teaching English to u if u 'd like ... Far from being perfect myself. 🤭

What about Khatia Buniatishvili? And what do you mean: without sentimentality?

@@henningandersen9027 he is playing schubert like schubert, not like Schumann. Khatia can‘t play schubert well

Well Edwin Fischer told Brendel in the 1950s that he had played Schubert’s D959 as though Schubert were his uncle.

Deeply tragic - too many unsuitable women and then mercury compounds trying to cure the result.

Yes I agree, my father told me...

Perhaps he was really meant to be among the angels.

@@alphaomega3944 Do angels play the piano ?

@@tedgrant2 Don't know. Why don't you ask them?

He and Richter both treat Schubert and Schumann similarly, when regard to pedaling. (I prepared the concert pianos for some of Brendel's recitals.)

I agree..it’s a shame we kind of live in a culture that idolises child prodigies and fame which stops people from taking that wonderful journey through life

With pleasure.

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