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Annie Fischer - The Centennial Collection / Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt / Audio CD set of 3 discs / Hungaroton / HCD 41011

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Annie Fischer - The Centennial Collection / Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt / Audio CD set of 3 discs / Hungaroton 

HCD41011

UPC 5991814101128

MADE IN EU

1991 Hungaroton

© 2013 Fotexnet Kft.

TOTAL TIME: 192:31 minutes 

 

!!! Condition of this BOX is used Like New !!!

 

English Summary:

Throughout the seven decades of Annie Fischer’s (1914–1995) prolific career, her amazing talent for music was accompanied by a sound foundation in the art, exceptional skills, precision and an outstanding intelligence as a performer. Despite her superior technical skills, she never indulged in virtuosity for just virtuosity’s sake: she complemented her brilliant technique with varied key-pressing and a refined, sophisticated sound. The honesty, artless simplicity, purity and deep musicality of Annie Fischer’s piano performances can still be enjoyed today through the studio recordings.

 

Hungarian Summary:

Fischer Annie (Budapest, 1914. július 5. – Budapest, 1995. április 10.) Kossuth-díjas magyar zongorista, kiváló művész.

A Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskolán Székely Arnold, majd Dohnányi Ernő növendéke volt. 10 éves korában (1924) Beethoven I., C-dúr zongoraversenyével debütált. 1926-ban volt az első nyilvános külföldi fellépése Zürichben, amelyen Mozart és Schumann egy-egy zongoraversenyét játszotta. Igen korán kezdte pályáját, igazi nemzetközi áttörésre azonban csak akkor kerülhetett sor, amikor megnyerte az 1933-ban Budapesten rendezett nemzetközi Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Zongoraverseny első díját.

Felfelé ívelő karrierjét a II. világháború szakította félbe zsó származása miatt, ezeket az éveket Fischer Annie Svédországban töltötte férjével, Tóth Aladár zenetudóssal (aki 1946-tól az Operaház igazgatója volt).

1946-ban tért vissza újra Budapestre, és ettől kezdve megszakítás nélkül itt élt, innen járta a világot. Különösen szívesen látott vendég volt Angliában, Hollandiában, Franciaországban és Svájcban. Sajnálatos, hogy a világ nagy zongoraművészeinek sorában elfoglalt kiemelkedő pozíciója ellenére viszonylag kevés hanglemezfelvétel őrzi emlékét – ennek egyszerű oka az, hogy nem szerette a stúdiók zárt világát.

Játékában csodálatos szintézisben egyesült a férfias erő, a billentés bámulatos szépségével és frazírozás ezernyi csodájával.

Fischer Annie hivatalosan sohasem tanított, ha fiatal művészek tanácsért fordultak hozzá, szívesen hallgatta meg őket és segítette pályájuk kibontakozását. Az 1950–1960-as években Magyarország „utazó zenei nagykövetének” nevezték.

1961-ben debütált az USA-ban Széll György vezényletével, s habár világszerte koncertezett, alapvetően európai illetőségű művész volt. Otto Klempererrel előadta Beethoven összes zongoraversenyét a londoni Royal Festival Hallban. 1995. április 10-én halt meg Budapesten.

 

DISC ONE


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466
1. I. Allegro 14:21
2. II. Romance 10:18
3. III. Rondo. Allegro assai 7:40

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K. 467
4. I. Allegro maestoso 15:31
5. II. Andante 7:16
6. III. Allegro vivace assai 7:01
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo in D major K. 382 9:38

Total time: 72:10
Annie Fischer - piano
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ervin Lukács
Recorded on March 7-11 (1-6) and April 5, 1965 (7) at Hungaroton Studio.

 

DISC TWO


Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37
1. I. Allegro con brio 16:28
2. II. Largo 9:20
3. III. Rondo. Allegro 9:11
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasy and Fugue in C major K. 394    8:25
5. Franz Schubert: Impromptu in F minor Op. 142 No. 1 D. 935/1 9:26

Total time: 53:03
Annie Fischer - piano
Budapest Symphony Orchestra (1-3), conducted by Heribert Esser (1-3)
Recorded on June 2-5, 1966 (1-3), April 5, 1965 (4) and March 28-31, 1968 (5) at Hungaroton Studio.

 


DISC THREE


Franz Schubert: Sonata in B flat major D. 960
1. I. Molto moderato 13:23
2. II. Andante sostenuto 10:05
3. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace    4:03
4. IV. Allegro ma non troppo 7:54
5. Ferenc Liszt: Sonata in B minor S. 178 31:36

Total time: 67:18
Annie Fischer - piano
Recorded on March 28-31, 1968 (1-4) and January 9, 1953 (5)

 

 

Annie Fischer (July 5, 1914 – April 10, 1995) was a Hungarian classical pianist.

Fischer was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, and studied in that city at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Ernő Dohnányi. In 1933 she won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in her native city. Throughout her career she played mainly in Europe and Australia, but was seldom heard in the United States until late in her lifetime, giving only two concerts there by that time.

She was married to influential critic and musicologist (and later director of the Budapest Opera) Aladar Toth (1898–1968); she is buried next to him in Budapest.

Fischer fled with her husband to Sweden in 1940, after Hungary during World War II joined the Axis powers. After the war, in 1946, she and Toth returned to Budapest. She died there in 1995.

Her playing has been praised for its "characteristic intensity" and "effortless manner of phrasing" (David Hurwitz), as well as its technical power and spiritual depth. She was greatly admired by such contemporaries as Otto Klemperer and Sviatoslav Richter; Richter wrote that "Annie Fischer is a great artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and genuine profundity." The Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini praised the "childlike simplicity, immediacy and wonder" he found in her playing. Her interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann, as well as Hungarian composers like Béla Bartók continue to receive the highest praise from pianists and critics.

Fischer made significant studio recordings in the 1950s with Otto Klemperer and Wolfgang Sawallisch, but felt that any interpretation created in the absence of an audience would necessarily be artificially constricting, since no interpretation was ever "finished." Her legacy today thus includes many live concert recordings that have been released on CD and DVD (including a performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto available on YouTube, and a Beethoven Third Concerto with Antal Doráti conducting). Her greatest legacy, however, is a studio-made integral set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. She worked on this set for 15 years beginning in 1977. A self-critical perfectionist, she did not allow the set to be released in her lifetime but, since her death, it has been released on compact disc and widely praised

 

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