My piano teacher studied with Annie Fischer in Budapest in the 1950s. Not only did they resemble each other physically (including their small, boxy hands) but their techniques are almost identical! It gives me chills to watch/listen to this performance and brings back memories of wonderful, gifted, and giving person.
Hungarian State Orchestra A Magyar Állami Hangversenyzenekart, --> Later the name was changed to Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Mura Péter (Budapest, 1924. június 21. - Budapest, 2009. december 28.) Annie Fischer (Budapest, 1914. július 5. - Budapest, 1995. április 10.)
She plays the elegiac second movement-some of the masters most powerful music(P.D. James' Dagliesh can imagine it as his ONLY funeral music) as beautifully as anyone . Amen.
Annie Fischer was one of the greatest musicians of her time. That she did not have the huge international career that was her just due was the enormous damage done by promoters and managers, by all the components of the music "business".
She toured a lot in Europe. You're yet to prove the part about the damage by promoters and managers, especially considering the climate of the communist Hungary she and her husband returned to after WW2.
24:39 the climax of the second movement . Look at her "pianissimo subito" at 24:54 , it betrays everything of her ..... look at her face ...... ! ......incredible moment .... (I wish I could have lived something (like her) which would me make able to play like that at these tremendous moments) (or perhaps not , it is so painful)
