Alfred Brendel Page Biography, discography, several essays, and interviews (no longer updated).Category Arts Music Piano pianists B brendel, alfred This unofficial little pocket of cyberspace is devoted to alfred brendel, aclassical pianist who must surely rank among the greats of this century. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2192/brendel.html
Extractions: "The aim is to be freer and yet more accurate. The accuracy means that the details count as much as the whole and this is also something that people who are not performers do not understand. There are some performers who have a good overview but who lack the detail, or there are performers who bring details beautifully to light but do not have the big concept and don't know where they really belong and where they come from and where they lead to." Interview from Gramophone magazine (Stephen Plaistow, February 1996) T his unofficial little pocket of cyberspace is devoted to Alfred Brendel, a classical pianist who must surely rank among the greats of this century. Since his first recording of Beethoven's complete piano works in the 1960s and his return to the sonatas twice more in recorded format, he has been most closely identified with the German composer, but his repertoire has admirable scope as well as depth. If you're unfamiliar with his work, new to classical music, or just plain browsing you'll find that this page and its various links should give you some idea of his approach to the piano and music in general; and if you're already an admirer of his, I hope you still find a few bits worth your time.
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Extractions: ALFRED BRENDEL Der Pianist Alfred Brendel zählt zu den interessantesten Musikinterpreten unserer Zeit. Berühmt sind besonders seine Interprationen der Werke von Franz Lizt. Am 5.Januar 2001 feierte Brendel seinen 70.Geburtstag. Konzertdaten und Auftritte Weitere Infos Aufnahmen mit Alfred Brendel: Johannes Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
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Extractions: Pianist Alfred Brendel's and the Alban Berg String Quartet's live recording of Mozart's Concerto for Piano No. 12 in A-Major KV 385p is a joy to listen to. The Piano Quartet in E flat KV 493 is graceful and sparkling, dark where necessary, and full of Mozart's humour - it was written only weeks after he had completed the Nozze di Figaro . Alfred Brendel and the Alban Berg String Quartet scintillate. They masterfully render the spirit of the 18th-century. EMI, 2000. Get it from Amazon.com The Alban Berg Quartett (ABQ) made their debut in 1971 at the Vienna Konzerthaus ( where they are now Honorary Members). They have their own concert series at the Vienna Konzerthaus, at the Royal Festival Hall London (where they are Associate Artists), at the Opera Zurich, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, at the Cologne Philharmonie and at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. The Alban Berg Quartett have been prolific recording artists and have received over thirty major international awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Edison Prize, the first International Classical Music Award, the Japan Grand Prix and the Gramophone Magazine Award.
Extractions: However, Fischer should be remembered not only as a solo pianist and conductor, but also as a chamber musician, song accompanist and teacher. Fischer's ensemble with Mainardi and Kulenkampff whose place was later taken by Schneiderhan reached the heights of trio playing, and as a partner of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf the master achieved the ideal fusion of simplicity and refinement. As an inspiring teacher he led two generations of young pianists 'away from the piano, and to themselves', and provided them with proper standards for their future careers. As an editor he helped to restore the Urtext of Classical masterpieces, and as a writer he formulated such memorable precepts as 'Put life into the music without doing violence to it.' Can there be a simpler formula for the task of the interpreter? All this calls to mind Alfred Cortot, as many-sided an artist as Fischer. The two masters, who had great admiration for each other, were poles apart in their repertoire; one could say that they complemented one another. Fischer was in his element in the Classic-Romantic realm of 'German' music, with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Cortot was particularly happy with Chopin, with some of Liszt's works, and with French piano music. In Schumann, their spheres met. At home, as he once told me, Fischer liked to play Chopin, whereas Cortot is reported to have had a sneaking affection for Brahms.
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Extractions: Of his musical beginnings and development he has modestly stated, "I did not come from a musical or intellectual family. ...I have not been a child prodigy. I do not have a photographic memory; neither do I play faster than other people. I am not a good sight reader. I need eight hours' sleep. I do not cancel concerts on principle, only when I am really sick. My career was so slow and gradual that I feel something is either wrong with me or with almost anybody else in the profession. Literature reading and writing as well as looking at art have taken up quite a bit of my time. When and how I should have learned all those pieces that I have played, besides being a less than perfect husband and father, I am at a loss to explain." Brendel's first recordings served to confirm his increasing stature as a keyboard artist in the concert hall and made his performances available to listeners who otherwise would not have been able to hear him at all. During the 1960s he became the first pianist to record Beethoven's entire piano works, for the Vox label; ever dissatisfied with his "work-in-progress", he returned to Beethoven in the 1970s with a complete recorded cycle of the piano sonatas for Philips, now available in a boxed set of 10 CDs (ADD). The 1982/83 season saw an even more remarkable feat: 77 recitals in 11 cities in Great Britain, France, the United States, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, to sold out concert halls, with complete cycles of the 32 Beethoven sonatas. Not to be outdone, even by himself, Brendel performed yet another series of the Beethoven sonatas in the 1990s, again in venues throughout the world; the fresh insights and experiences gleaned from this recent cycle are reflected in his second recorded cycle of the sonatas for Philips, which was completed in late 1996 and is available either singly or in a second boxed set of 10 CDs (DDD).
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Extractions: H e is not going to do any more cycles of the Beethoven sonatas, and as far as cycles go will confine himself to the Beethoven concertos. Of these there are quite a few in sight. "The first one will be in New York with Kurt Masur, in March; then there are the concertos (not in a cycle, but in individual concerts) with Abbado in Berlin; and later on I shall do cycles with Marriner and the Academy of St Martin's in Paris and in London. I did them with Neville about 18 months ago in Montpelier and that was a very pleasant experience because the orchestra really tried to understand what I wanted and was very cooperative. And then I have the prospect of something in Munich and Vienna. "I just don't feel physically inclined to take the responsibility for very large cycles in the future. What I may do is perhaps a few programmes of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, for instance, going through the late Mozart sonatas. I want to concentrate on these matters more, and also after a longish interval to go back to some of the Schubert works, with refreshed senses. Work-in-progress, as always, yes. And there's still a case for the rehabilitation of Haydn. My dream of a full Haydn recital I have not yet realized; it may still come. "I also want to spend some time with the Schumann Concerto again. I'm very unsatisfied with what I have done so far and have a number of performances lined up next year to see if I can do better. It's one of those frustrating pieces which seem so obvious on the page and yet, with the first two movements particularly, I so often find there are things still to be desired. The last movement seems to come much more easily, to me at any rate. So I'll try again.
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Extractions: news freetime travel homezone ... item world Pianist Alfred Brendel like a museum guide to Mozart Michael Anthony, Star Tribune Published May 5, 2000 A lfred Brendel might be tired by now of being called the thinking listener's pianist, or the most cerebral of musicians. Such labeling, on the other hand, has perhaps helped him sell more albums than most other pianists. As Brendel demonstrated in a performance with the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall Wednesday night, he draws the listener in through the sheer concentration of his thought, quirky though it might be in some cases. He's like a guide at a museum who says to his companions: "Here's something you might not have considered about the painting we're looking at." The painter in this case was Mozart, and the work was the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482, one of the less-often-heard of Mozart's last great works for piano and orchestra. Brendel has always had his own take on Mozart, and his own sound. Whereas most Mozart players stress the long lines and their vocal quality, both in the solo and in the orchestra parts, Brendel often has focused on the shorter units, aiming to reveal hidden textures by applying a dry, detached, Baroque-influenced approach to the keyboard. He experimented with this most dramatically in a recording with Neville Marriner some years ago. The idea still fascinates him. Certainly the clipped, non-legato way he played the slow movement of this concerto Wednesday night avoided the sentimental and sounded almost hard in places. In the outer movements, the wit and bounce of the music came to the fore. The finale of this concerto rarely has sounded so buoyant.
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Extractions: Alfred Brendel, praised as a supreme master of his art who is always searching for new perspectives, is recognized by audiences the world over for his legendary ability to convey the emotional and intellectual development of the music he performs. His accomplishments as an interpreter of the great composers have earned him a place among the most revered musicians of our time. For the 2002/03 season, he plays with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony, as well as making his annual North American recital tour. In some cities he also reads selections from his poetry collection in special presentations. Mr. Brendel performs regularly with virtually all of the leading orchestras and conductors of the world. He has presented recitals in the major centers of Europe, Great Britain and Japan and his annual tours of North America have taken him coast to coast. In recent seasons Mr. Brendel has concertized with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, and has appeared in Dallas, Toronto, Kalamazoo (at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival) and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 1997/98 Mr. Brendel augmented his coast to coast tour to present an evening of reflection and commentary on music, literature and the visual arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In Europe, his extensive schedule included repeated appearances with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic and with Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic.
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Extractions: Alfred Brendel is a pianist, renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Liszt, made his debut as a poet at the age of sixty-seven with the collection Fingerzeig (1996). The same brilliant fingers making a new sound, wrote Harold Pinter after reading it. Brendel quickly followed it up with two more collections: Störendes Lachen während des Jaworts (1998) and Kleine Teufel I dreamt up these things in German, because I dream in German, and many poems began their life in that state between sleeping and waking which combines sense and non-sense, order and disorder. Brendels poems are full of wit and humour, frequently evoking the absurd. He shows us how people indulge in illusions, sometimes hilarious, often frightening. He also has a knack of combining incongruous elements; he brings famous operas to a surprising new close, makes the Buddha appear side by side with Santa Claus, or a pig tote a mobile phone. His brilliant, surprising texts are often profound as well as funny, sensitive as well as subversive. He writes about serious matters without taking himself seriously. Brendel names as his models the Dada poets, the grotesque poetry of Christian Morgenstern, and Shakespeare. Another favourite is
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Extractions: Harris Goldsmith To judge from its rubric, this richly deserved retrospective could aptly be described as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Mr Brendel's discography fired its opening salvo with what might now seem a surprising and uncharacteristic piece: With Prokofiev's then infrequently heard Fifth Piano Concerto - a substantial composition to be sure, but certainly at a far remove from the protagonist's accustomed bailiwick (the recording, made in 1955 for the small independent Period label (SPL 599), shared its vinyl - these were of course in the days of mono lp - with Prokofiev played by different artists). High Fidelity's resident reviewer, Alfred Frankenstein, had high praise for the concerto and its performance; also finding the sound reproduction far superior to its discmates. My own tenure with High Fidelity began with the March 1960 issue but this writer's first direct awareness of Brendel came with the Vox release that juxtaposed Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy with Liszt's amplification of the same for piano and orchestra (now available on CD3X 3041). When that record was sent to me for review, I mentioned it to a dear friend and burgeoning piano student who had just returned to New York after spending time as a Fullbright Scholar. Speaking of Brendel (who he had just heard in Europe), my friend cited the then up-and-coming Austrian pianist's technique and musical rectitude, likening his interpretive style to Rudolf Serkin when he first came to public note as Adolf Busch's sonata partner and son-in-law. With that Schubert/Liszt apéritif, bolstered with my friend's encomium, I was eager and ready to partake in a substantial meal, if not a banquet.
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Extractions: @import "/css/default-b.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002) Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer
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Extractions: C onsidering the phenomenal number of articles written about Alfred Brendel, it might seem futile or at least not particularly useful to take yet another look at this incomparable pianist. He is an artist whose peers hold him in the highest regard. He is a perfectionist when it comes to technique, and a musical interpreter of profound sensitivity. In fact, he challenges the standards, expectations, and unspoken laws of the classical music jungle and emerges greater than ever, yet able to maintain a disconcerting frankness and modesty. Brendel has a remarkably fine-tuned ear, not only when performing but with regard to life in general, and he leads parallel lives that are mutually enriching. He is a chamber player (he recently joined with baritone Matthias Goerne, to the delight of fans of the vocal art); he performs with orchestra (in April he will perform all of Beethovens concertos with Seiji Osawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and as a soloist (recitals in Montreal and Ottawa are scheduled for March and April). Brendel is also an essayist ( Thoughts and Afterthoughts has been providing absorbing reading for musicians and music-lovers for over thirty years); a new-fledged poet (his collection
