ALFRED BRENDEL
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATA HAMMERKLAVIER
BAGATELLE, OP. 126, NOS. 2 & 3
BONUS: JULIUS KATCHEN PERFORMS SCHUBERT'S WANDERER FANTASIE
All filmed in Paris, 1967 and 1970.
Source: INA Archive
DVA 7243 4 90123 9 4

Alfred's Brendel's Beethoven regularly prompts the kind of critical accolades that Schnabel, Fischer and Kempff had inspired for earlier generations. Beethoven's mighty Hammerklavier Sonata is the centrepiece of Brendel's programme, a performance from 1970, whereas the invaluable 1967 bonus is Schubert's epic Wanderer Fantasy performed, with immense warmth and panache, by the much-missed American pianist Julius Katchen.

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