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Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Edwin Fischer
Edwin Fischer: The pre-war Schubert Recordings
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Impromptu for piano in C minor, D. 899/1 (Op. 90/1)
2. Impromptu for piano in E flat major, D. 899/2 (Op. 90/2)
3. Impromptu for piano in G flat major, D. 899/3 (Op. 90/3)
4. Impromptu for piano in A flat major, D. 899/4 (Op. 90/4)
5. Impromptu for piano in F minor, D. 935/1 (Op. posth. 142/1)
6. Impromptu for piano in A flat major, D. 935/2 (Op. posth. 142/2)
7. Impromptu for piano in B flat major, D. 935/3 (Op. posth. 142/3)
8. Impromptu for piano in F minor, D. 935/4 (Op. posth. 142/4)
9. Fantasia for piano in C major ('Wanderer'), D. 760 (Op. 15): Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo
10. Fantasia for piano in C major ('Wanderer'), D. 760 (Op. 15): Adagio
11. Fantasia for piano in C major ('Wanderer'), D. 760 (Op. 15): Presto
12. Fantasia for piano in C major ('Wanderer'), D. 760 (Op. 15): Allegro

CD Details

All Artists: Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Edwin Fischer
Title: Edwin Fischer: The pre-war Schubert Recordings
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Apr UK
Release Date: 2/20/1996
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Fantasies, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 034065751522

CD Reviews

Musical treasures of the highest level!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 11/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are artists-pianists, who go further the most eloquent epithets and leave an inimitable trace in the collective unconscious, they draw - before playing - with wonderful thinness unsaid landscapes inside the musical canvas-score, conferring them a new life and unequaled lyrical expressiveness.

Edwin Fischer was one of these magnificent exponents of the art of piano playing. His personality and wise approach around every piece made of him the perfect interpreter of Franz Schubert.

He explored the imagination, lyricism and Dionysian aspect of Schubert, and sow in the artistic soul of Paul Badura Skoda (his most remarkable pupil) that unerring and peerless vision.

In this sense, I don't know about any other pianist capable to express with major of lyrical depth and sense of sidereal entireness the Impromptus Op. 142 as a whole. The Second and Third for instance are played with such spirit's grandness and radiant splendor that make the other pianists simply pale before this version. You should realize, for instance the enrapturing atmosphere in which he dives us from the first bar.

In which concerns the Wanderer, it owns rhythmic vitality and sense of propulsion, blended with an accurate level of exuberant lyricism and engaging musicality. Beware, for instance the rubato employed in the First movement, marvelously and sumptuously phrased, ornamented with sheer mystery and amazing ability to let us listen the inner voices.

These pieces were recorded just before the WW2. Both sets of Impromptus were recorded on May 8 and 9 1939, and the Wanderer Fantasy in May 22 and 23 1934.

To tell you these admirable recordings are part of the most emblematic musical treasures perhaps it would be extremely limited.

I don't hesitate for just a moment to label this album as one of my most treasured musical jewels in my collection and so; I invite you to get it as soon as possible.

Don't miss it!

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