Clara Haskil
Romanian pianist Clara Haskil began her career as a child prodigy at the Bucharest Conservatory under Richard Robert at age 7, making her debut at the age of 10. Haskil ultimately graduated from Alfred Cortot's class at the Paris Conservatoire at 15 with the Prémier Prix to her credit. By the age of 18, however, Haskil was forced to endure the first of many physical setbacks that would hold back her career, in this case an attack of meningitis that kept her in a body cast for four years. Haskil did recover, making her New York debut in 1924 and her London debut in 1926. Although it was late in her career that her name was inextricably linked with the Mozart piano concerti, at this stage Haskil was associated with Romantic literature. Her performances of the Schumann concerto in Philadelphia with Leopold Stokowski were widely praised.
With the outbreak of war, Haskil was trapped in occupied Paris, but was able to escape to Marseilles. There she survived a surreptitious surgical procedure to remove a tumor from her optic nerve, and was then smuggled to Vevey, Switzerland, where Haskil settled for the rest of her days. With war's end she resumed her career yet again, and thereafter enjoyed her greatest successes with a busy concert and recording schedule that took her around the world. Despite her amazing stamina, she proved unable to survive a fall she suffered in a Paris railway station in 1960, and died one month short of her 66th birthday.
With Haskil, musicianship came first and technical matters were irrelevant; she had enormous hands and could play a 12th in her left hand with a fingering of 2-5. Haskil reputedly had an amazing memory, and could accurately play back a piece of music she'd heard only once, even after the passage of several years, without ever having seen the score. The Clara Haskil Prize, awarded once every two years in Vevey, Switzerland, was established in 1962 as a memorial to the pianist.
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Mozart: Concertos pour piano Nos. 20 & 24 (Stereo Version)
Clara Haskil, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de España, El sombrero de tres picos & La vida breve (interludio y danza No. 1)
Clara Haskil, Teresa Berganza, Igor Markevitch, Ernest Ansermet
Symfonieën - Released by Praga Digitals on 1 sep. 2012
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Mozart: The Violin Sonatas
Klassiek - Released by Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording on 6 dec. 2021
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Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas (Mono Version)
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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Chopin: Concerto pour piano No. 2 - de Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Stereo Version)
Clara Haskil, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 19, K. 459, No. 13 K. 415 & No. 20 K. 466
Clara Haskil, Ferenc Fricsay, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rias Sinfonie Orchester Berlin
Concertmuziek - Released by Praga Digitals on 1 nov. 2016
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas
Klassiek - Released by Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording on 22 sep. 2021
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Mozart : 4 Sonates pour piano et violon, KV 301, 304, 376 & 378
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1959
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Clara Haskil Edition
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2010
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Mozart : Concertos pour piano Nos. 16, 19, 20, 23, 25 & Concerto pour deux pianos (Diapason n°593)
Clara Haskil / Geza Anda / Clifford Curzon / Edwin Fischer / Rudolf Serkin
Concertmuziek - Released by Les Indispensables de Diapason on 28 mrt. 2010
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mono Version)
Clara Haskil, Paul Sacher, Wiener Symphoniker
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1960
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Scarlatti: The Keyboard Sonatas by Clara Haskil
Klassiek - Released by Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording on 3 dec. 2021
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Beethoven: Sonates pour piano "La tempête" & "La chasse" (Mono Version)
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1956
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Clara Haskil, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Klassiek - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 27 aug. 2021
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Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven (Live Recordig)
Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Gould, Clara Haskil
Concertmuziek - Released by Artemisia on 9 okt. 2023
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Clara Haskil Plays Beethoven
Clara Haskil, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Klassiek - Released by Andromeda on 29 jul. 2009
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonate für Klavier und Violine e-moll KV 304 (Piano & violin sonata kv 304)
Klassiek - Released by Four Seasons Records on 9 feb. 2018
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Munch conducts Beethoven
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Clara Haskil, Claudio Arrau, Jascha Heifetz, Zino Francescatti, Charles Munch
Klassiek - Released by West Hill Radio Archives on 4 okt. 2011
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.13 & 20; Piano Sonata K. 280
Clara Haskil, Festival Strings Lucerne, RIAS Symphonie-Orchester, Ferenc Fricsay, Rudolf Baumgartner
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 1993
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Schumann: Pièces pour piano (Mono Version)
Klassiek - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1955
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 by Clara Haskil
Clara Haskil, Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Klassiek - Released by Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording on 27 dec. 2021
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