The Farewell Concerts (2009)

For his last pair of concerts in a 60-year-long career, Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel went out with a superlatively chosen selection of some of his favorite works by some of his favorite composers, most of whom, unsurprisingly, were also Austrian. There are pairs of works by Mozart: the Piano Concerto in E flat major, K. 271, and Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533; Beethoven: the Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27/1, and Bagatelle in A major, Op. 33/4; and Schubert: the B flat major Sonata, D. 960, and Impromptu in G flat ... Read More

For his last pair of concerts in a 60-year-long career, Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel went out with a superlatively chosen selection of some of his favorite works by some of his favorite composers, most of whom, unsurprisingly, were also Austrian. There are pairs of works by Mozart: the Piano Concerto in E flat major, K. 271, and Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533; Beethoven: the Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27/1, and Bagatelle in A major, Op. 33/4; and Schubert: the B flat major Sonata, D. 960, and Impromptu in G flat major, D. 899/3; as well as single works by Haydn: the Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6; and finally, inevitably, Bach: the choral prelude Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659, in Busoni's arrangement. Each work had long been in Brendel's repertoire, and his familiarity, one might even say his sense of identity, with each is complete. Yet Brendel is anything but routine; indeed, he seems as filled with life as his interpretations are filled with new insights. In his career,... Read Less

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