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Imserba Webstore - Leon Fleisher: Two Hands
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Manufacturer: Artemis Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0699675155124
Label: Artemis Classics
Manufacturer: Artemis Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Artemis Classics
Release Date: 2004-08-24
Studio: Artemis Classics
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Summary: Love this album
Comment: This is one of the most beautiful and personal recordings I have ever heard. There's really nothing more to say. I just wish it were a double album.
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Summary: Divine Pianism
Comment: After more than 35 years of suffering from dystonia, his two-hand pianism emerges like a miracle! I can not detect even a hint of disability in his right hand. Like S.Richter in his later years, Fleisher's playing has a kind of rarified beauty and reverence for music.
Bach's Cantata arrangements, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Myra Hess) and Sheep may safely graze (Egon Petri), are played most beautifully with blissful simplicity. Scarlatti sonata is an expression of pure joy of making music. Chopin noctune and Debussy's Clair de lune are absolutely magical, second only to the miraculously atmospheric performance of Clair de lune by Richter.
Highlight of this cd is the awe-inspiring performance of Schubert's D960 Sonata. This is a superlative performance that can match the great recordings by Rubinstein and Richter in depth, delicacy and richness of playing. Fleisher defies the centuries-old nonsense that left-hand part must support right hand, by letting left hand part express itself as much as right hand part. The effect is a revelation. The piano produces lavishingly rich sounds like an orchestra. This performance is a moving testimony that adversity can be tunred into advantage, by an artist who, through much suffering, has learned the essence of what music is and what life is.
Commentary includes pianist's own very personal and touching episodes and insights on each piece, and on his mentor Schnabel's influence.
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Summary: Artistry and Strenght
Comment: I look for this CD after having heard in a Lisbon radio, a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Fleisher playing Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze. I was so moved by his interpretation, by the beauty and simplicity of that piece that I immediately start looking for the CD. Only then I knew who he was as a musician and a human being: great, strong, marvellous man! Thank you very much, Mr. Fleisher for letting me know your art and this tiny, wonderful piece of mucic.
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Summary: Classical piano doesn't get any better than this
Comment: This is a beautifully produced album by a master of the piano. Listening to the piano transcription of Sheep May Safely Graze is worth the price of admission alone. The Schubert D flat major sonata is moving and powerful. The Chopin delightful and full of feeling. You waited your whole life to hear the piano played this well with such a delightful choice of pieces.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: F leisher's triumphant return.
Comment: It is thrilling and soul-satisfying to hear Leon Fleisher's superb and sensitive playing of Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy and Schubert after dystonia had prevented two-handed performances for more than 35 years.
The Fleisher tapes of Beethoven's piano concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, before his disability, are treasures, and "Two Hands" shows that maturity has made his touch even more magical. His playing of Schubert's great Sonata in B flat Major rivals that of Leif Ove Andsnes, whom I have heard in person. For me, that is the ultimate accolade. Art Wild, Long Beach CA, 1/10/07
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