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.
Extractions: Winter 2001/2002 CLASSIC RECORD COLLECTOR . Writes critic Nalen Anthoni: "A feast of Fischer! Where, however, is the substance of the feast to be found? Not in glib, note-perfect pianism... His technique was insecure... No, the key to Fischer's contribution lies in his own intellectual and emotional response to the music he chose to play, and that shines through most of the 19 pieces in this set." Edwin Fischer (1884-1960) was a pioneering pianist-conductor of Baroque and Classical keyboard works. In his recordings he demonstrated, in the words of Dominic Gill, "a deep humanity and a luminous sense of polyphony which, for many, speak of an aqge of poetry and musicianship regrettably past." In this collection, presented with the kind cooperation of The Edwin Fischer Archive (Vienna), numerous concert performances and broadcast studio recordings are released for the first time. Fischer's playing was known for its expressive and communicative qualities. He was by no means an infallible pianist: people did not attend his recitals to hear note perfect performances (though his playing was quite accurate in his early days); they came instead to be moved. Fischer began recording for HMV in 1931 and left us many treasured recordings. Supplanting his commercial discography are numerous off-the-air performances, many of which capture Fischer in repertoire he did not otherwise record. For works that he also recorded commercially there are often significant differences between the live and studio versions. Two-thirds of the material included in this set is released here for the first time in any format; all carefully reprocessed from the best available source materials.
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Extractions: Well-Tempered Clavier Fischer was born in Basle in 1886, and he studied in that city and in Berlin. Even at the start of his career, he was a pedagogue; he delayed starting his performing career in earnest until World War One. Throughout much of his life, he was an educator as well as a musician, and he was more than a mere dabbler in conducting too. (In fact, this set preserves his excellent, intense Mozart Symphony #40 recorded in 1953 with the Municipal Orchestra of Strasbourg.) Alfred Brendel is included among his pupils. At his best, Fischer played with a beautifully caressing tone married to a gentle but masculine strength. His interpretations, Romantic in spirit, didn't always remain faithful to the composers' literal intentions, at least as we understand them today, but they consistently uncovered poetry that made him one with the composers' creative spirits. As a result, we don't hear Fischer's playing as particularly "old fashioned." Like many pianists from the first part of the 20 th century, Fischer's first priority was communication and expression, and if he took chances and hit a few wrong notes in the process, then that was just an occupational hazard. Today, we have come to expect technical perfection at all times, and musicianship unfortunately has become more sterile as a result. Particularly in these live performances and broadcast recordings, you'll hear mistakes that never would be allowed in today's studio recordings. For the most part, though, you won't hear pianism as strong and magical as Fischer's.
EDWIN FISCHER Public Performances And Broadcasts edwin fischer. edwin fischer represented an ideal middle ground between objective intellectualism and unabashed for many years fischer remained the only pianist to have done so. http://www.classicalcdreview.com/efma.htm
Extractions: The program essay by Farhan Malik that accompanies these six discs (for the price of four) states straightaway that the 1880s saw the birth of three pianists who were to become indelibly associated with the core German piano literature: Wilhelm Backhaus (1882), Artur Schnabel (1884) and Edwin Fischer, who was born in Basel [Switzerland] on 6 October 1886. No mention, though, of their stellar colleague, Artur Rubinstein seven months older than Fischer - who was one of of the great Chopianists of all time, yet played much of the same repertoire, often as well and sometimes better. The lone exception in his case was Bach der Vater, but then neither Backhaus nor Schnabel were Bach-specialists. The Cantor of Leipzig was Fischers specialty, both as a pianist and as a conductor, here of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. But this is 19th-century Bach, be cautioned, on a grand piano, recurringly with a heavy touch and sometimes a sobriety verging on didacticism. Fischer also led the Berlin Philharmonic in a 1943 performance of Beethovens C major Concerto (officially No. 1, actually No. 2) but disfigured it with his outré After the war, on a distinguished but short-lived series of HMV LPs issued in the U.S. by RCA, Fischer was soloist in a powerfully solemn Emperor Concerto with Furtwängler and the Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as soloist on two LPs of Mozart Concertos conducting his orchestra: Nos, 17, 20, 22, 24 and 25. There were also Schuberts
Extractions: EMI 74800 Once you become aware of something nothing is the same again. Einstein said something like that. Okay, this was another research project of mine. From time-to-time I get an itch to revisit a piece of music. In this case it came from reading ratings of the Fischer/Furtwangler recordings in both The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs who said it was one of the "classics of the gramophone" and in Alexander Morin's The Essential Listening Guide to Classical Music he said it was 'sublime". So, being a Furtwangler 'fan' I got a copy. That was not enough, however, I also decided to specifically include an examination of the Gould/Stokowski recording. To prepare myself I read the commentaries by Bookspan and Steinberg. I sat down and listened to Kempff. His DG recording was one of the first in my collection and I have always felt it was one of the most poetic, light, almost chamber-like. Then I turned to Kovacevich on Philips with Davis and the LSO. This is an excellent recording as well with a larger heft to the music. I did all of this because I knew I was in for some different music making and wanted to have more mainstream references. In his tome, Morin referred to Gould's recordings, especially of the "Emperor" as "perverse". I also should relate a story from Abram Chasins' biography of Stokowski. He talked about a meeting in Stokowski's apartment shortly after the recording was released and the Maestro asked for the author's opinion. Chasins replied that it seemed like the orchestra and soloist needed more rehearsal time so that they could work together better and asked if Stokowski agreed with that assessment. Stokowski simply said, "Yes." I have to admit that there are times when I get the feeling that Stokowski is conducting for a somewhat different performance than Gould has in mind but that is really a minor quibble. The overall effect is greater than the sum of the parts.
Edwin Fischer - Wikipedia edwin fischer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. edwin fischer (October6, 1886 January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Fischer
Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edwin Fischer October 6 January 24 ) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor . He is widely regarded as one of the great pianists of the 20th century , particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as Johann Sebastian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert . He is also regarded as one of the finest piano teachers of modern times. Fischer was born in Basel and studied music first there, and later in Berlin . He first came to prominence as a pianist following World War I . In 1926 he became conductor of the Lübeck Musikverein and later conducted in Munich . In 1932 he formed his own chamber orchestra, and was one of the first to be interested in presenting music of the
Alfred Brendel - Wikipedia and he has said that he believes the primary job of the pianist is to As well ashis old teacher, edwin fischer, he cites Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Kempff, and http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Brendel
Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alfred Brendel (born January 5 ) is an Austrian pianist . He is widely seen as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century Brendel was born in Wiesenburg (then in Moravia ) into a non-musical family. They moved to Zagreb when Brendel was six, and later to Graz . They lived there during World War II , towards the end of which the fourteen year old Brendel was sent to Yugoslavia to dig trenches. However, he caught frostbite and was taken to hospital. Throughout his childhood, Brendel had occasional piano lessons, but otherwise little formal music education.
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Extractions: Edwin Fischer represented an ideal middle ground between objective intellectualism and unabashed romanticism. Two contrasting figures proved highly influential on the young Swiss pianist's development: Ferruccio Busoni, whose classical approach Fischer greatly appreciated, and that wildly romantic sprit, Eugen d'Albert. Fischer viewed the differing philosophies of these two great artists as complementary to one another and was able to incorporate aspects of both into his own playing. His interpretations were always logically thought out, yet, ultimately, guided by the heart and the ear. In 1931 Fischer began a long association with the HMV recording company. Over the next eleven years he made many of his finest recordings, among which were Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathetique and Appassionata sonatas, Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and Impromptus, Handel's Suite in D minor and several Mozart Piano Concertos. His recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier was considered a landmark achievement - no other pianist had made a complete recording, and for many years Fischer remained the only pianist to have done so. Even today, more than 65 years after its release, it is still considered one of the finest recordings of Bach's masterwork. The outbreak of World War II soon put Fischer's recording career on hold, and in 1943, after his Berlin home was bombed, he moved back to Switzerland. He still managed to play a limited number of concerts, but it was not until 1947 that he once again began recording for HMV in London. Over the next several years health problems (including high blood pressure) began to take their toll, and Fischer was forced to reduce his professional activities. By 1954 paralysis was setting in and his health had deteriorated to the point that he could barely play the piano. After a long period of illness he died on 24th January, 1960 in a Zurich hospital.
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Extractions: Corrected at July 2000 1. Curriculum Vitae [ Fischer at his young age ] The minimum technique that can support the expression a professional player want is indispensable to him. However, I think many a people tends to confuse the way and the purpose. There were some professional artists who can fulfill their aims even thought their technique was not very good ; Edwin Fischer was one of them surely. It is so sufficient as to call him maestro, because he reached the aim so beautifully. He is an artist of monaural era. He was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father played oboe in Municipal Orchestra and viola in amateur string quartet. His talent appeared at four years old when he said 'That is G' touching a note from piano. At 10 he entered Basel Conservatory, moving to Berlin and was taught by Martin Krause - Liszt's pupil and became Arrau's teacher later - at Stern Conservatory(now Berlin Conservatory). He started to teach there after graduation in 1905. Different from
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EDWIN FISCHER Public Performances And Broadcasts Wilhelm Backhaus (1882), Artur Schnabel (1884) and edwin fischer, who was The Cantorof Leipzig was fischers specialty, both as a pianist and as a http://classicalcdreview.com/efma.htm
Extractions: The program essay by Farhan Malik that accompanies these six discs (for the price of four) states straightaway that the 1880s saw the birth of three pianists who were to become indelibly associated with the core German piano literature: Wilhelm Backhaus (1882), Artur Schnabel (1884) and Edwin Fischer, who was born in Basel [Switzerland] on 6 October 1886. No mention, though, of their stellar colleague, Artur Rubinstein seven months older than Fischer - who was one of of the great Chopianists of all time, yet played much of the same repertoire, often as well and sometimes better. The lone exception in his case was Bach der Vater, but then neither Backhaus nor Schnabel were Bach-specialists. The Cantor of Leipzig was Fischers specialty, both as a pianist and as a conductor, here of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. But this is 19th-century Bach, be cautioned, on a grand piano, recurringly with a heavy touch and sometimes a sobriety verging on didacticism. Fischer also led the Berlin Philharmonic in a 1943 performance of Beethovens C major Concerto (officially No. 1, actually No. 2) but disfigured it with his outré After the war, on a distinguished but short-lived series of HMV LPs issued in the U.S. by RCA, Fischer was soloist in a powerfully solemn Emperor Concerto with Furtwängler and the Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as soloist on two LPs of Mozart Concertos conducting his orchestra: Nos, 17, 20, 22, 24 and 25. There were also Schuberts
Pianist Conrad Hansen And The Remington Story edwin fischer, who had a busy concert schedule, asked Conrad to be his assistant. 252002 the German newspaper Die Welt announced that pianist and pedagogue http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/remhansen.html
Extractions: In 1940 he was asked to record Tchaikovsky's Concerto Op. 23 with Willem Mengelberg and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The recording was released on the Telefunken label as well as on the Czech label Ultraphon. Mengelberg was very happy with Hansen's performance. In 1945 he founded his own trio "The Conrad Hansen Trio" with violinist Erich Röhn and celloplayer Arthur Troester. But he always remained a devoted teacher. After the 2nd World War he also was one of the founders of the "Music Academy of Detmold". Lateron he moved to Hamburg and continued teaching there as well as in Lübeck. He edited Beethoven's own manuscripts (Urtext) of the Piano Sonatas and prepared these to be published.
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