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Edwin Fischer plays Mozart - Volume I
His interpretations were distinguished by a profound respect for the text, his ability to submerge himself in the work played, and the depth and purity of his expression. Like all the greatest art, at the centre is a core of simplicity. On his first volume are: the Concerto no. 17 and the Rondo K 382, with his own Chamber Orchestra, the Concerto no. 20 with the LPO, Concerto no. 22 with Barbirolli and his Chamber Orchestra, Concerto no. 24 with Collingwood and the LPO, and the Sonata no. 10, K 330 and Romance in Ab, K Anh. 205 (attrib.). With Fischer's intellectual and artistic integrity went, unusually, a sense of humour. That lightness, combined with natural authority, make his pianism special. [upload=jpg]Upload/2004122417451286426.jpg[/upload]
Edwin Fischer plays Mozart - Volume II
As Paul Badura Skoda, a pupil, has said of Fischer: 'he was endowed with a strange mixture of conflicting qualities powerful manliness and sweetness of feeling are portrayed in his playing'. Here is one of the great pianists, in notable performances of the Piano Concerto n. 25, cond. Josef Krips and the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Piano Sonata no. 11 K331 and the Minuet K1.
