Clara Haskil - Recital de Besançon
MP3 | 320 kb/s | PT: 1:13:09 | 91 + 31 MB
Classical | Label: France (Megaphon)
(Original CD: Music & Arts: 1981) Rem: 2007
MP3 | 320 kb/s | PT: 1:13:09 | 91 + 31 MB
Classical | Label: France (Megaphon)
(Original CD: Music & Arts: 1981) Rem: 2007
Clara Haskill, here in Besançon, is heard at her very best… The piano sound is particularly natural and clean on this transfer. Her intimate universe and her incredible talent, at the peak of her career, are used in these performances of her favourite composers: Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven and Schubert.
She was acclaimed as the foremost Mozart pianist of her generation.
The Beethoven Sonata N 18 is a calibrated Beethoven, of perfect architecture, in which the tone, the phrasing, are perceived with absolute transparence. The proverbial ear of the Haskil and her immense nature and knowledge, turn the performances into a sublime experience.
Direct recording from Radiodiffusion Française in The Besançon Festival, 7th September 1956.
Clara Haskil, piano.
…Her second and last encore in the Besançon recital, the 'Abschied' from Schumann's Waldszenen, proved to be infinitely moving. However, it is her performance of the Schubert sonata which still haunts me after almost 40 years.
Although the Besançon recital is preserved to disc, it goes without saying that no recording really succeeds in rendering full justice to such consummate musical experiences. And, however grateful one must be for the existence of such historical material, the sad fact remains that rarely, if ever, do recordings manage to capture the essential magic of the performer's art.
(Peter Feuchtwanger. From: Classical Piano, May/June 1995 - "Flying in the face of death").
Content:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Nine Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K.573
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat, Op. 31 No. 3
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D.845