The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (141): Leon’s late Schubert
mainLate in his own life, when he had recovered the use of both hands, Fleisher gave an incomparable account of Schubert’s late sonata.
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This is so lovingly played…from the opening notes, as though in thanksgiving, perhaps to music and the composer above all.
My first thought. That Schnabel sound from the first chord! Wow!
Decades ago, a major recording company commissioned me to photograph Fleischer, with a much more famous colleague.
For whatever reason, Fleischer decided to disregard the directive to wear concert attire.
Shocked by his disrespectful, unprofessional behavior, I should have sent him packing, but I made some photos anyway.
But he’d made sure to sink the session; the photographs were, of course, unusable.
The client was not amused.
When it comes to music, photography is merely a meddlesome nuisance, sometimes worse.
@Linc.
Shocking news indeed. Especially at a moment like this. Some people — it were better they had never been born!
How nice to bring up on the occasion of his death.
https://youtu.be/jdvJnhEFOHQ
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1
Leon Fleisher
Pierre Monteux
New York Philharmonic
November 5, 1944
A day later, I come back to hear this again…it has been playing in my thoughts.