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: Piano Concerto In D Minor, K.466; Piano Concerto In C Minor, K.491
Clara Haskil, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Sep 1984
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Clara Haskil plays Mozart Piano Concerto 19 and 20
Clara Haskil, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda
Classical - Released by Archipel on 3 Sep 2021
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An Intimate Portrait
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 14 Jun 2007
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Klavierkonzert Nr. 9 Es-Dur KV 271 „Jeunehomme" (Piano Concerto No. 9 KV 271)
Clara Haskil, Paul Sacher, Wiener Symphoniker
Classical - Released by Four Seasons Records on 26 Jan 2018
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Bach: Concerto pour violon, BWV 1041, Toccata, BWV 914, Concerto pour clavecin No. 5, BWV 1056 & Sonate en trio, BWV 1038 (Mono Version)
Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, Clara Haskil
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1955
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel: Clara Haskil interpreta...
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 3 May 2019
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 19
Clara Haskil, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 22 Feb 2015
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Récital de Besançon, 7 septembre 1956
Classical - Released by INA Mémoire vive on 27 Jun 2001
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Mozart: Sonates pour violon et piano K. 301, 304, 376 & 378 (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1959
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Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, D.960
Classical - Released by Past Classics on 1 Feb 2010
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano 8 - 9 - 10
Chamber Music - Released by Zeroh on 16 Jun 2017
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Mozart: Concerto pour piano No. 9, K. 271 "Jeunehomme" & Rondo pour piano et orchestre, K. 386 (Mono Version)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paul Sacher, Clara Haskil
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1961
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Clara Haskil and Ferenc Fricsay the complete Mozart Recordings
Rias Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Clara Haskil, Clara Hasikl, Ferenc Fricsay
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 16 Oct 2020
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Klavierkonzert Nr. 13 C-Dur KV 415 (Piano concerto no. 13 kv 415)
Clara Haskil, Rudolf Baumgartner, Festival Strings Lucerne
Classical - Released by Four Seasons Records on 26 Jan 2018
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Schumann: Kinderszenen, Waldszenen, Abegg, Variations, Piano Concerto in A
Clara Haskil, Willem van Otterloo
Classical - Released by Urania on 5 Feb 2008
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Mozart & Beethoven: Piano Concertos
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 1 Jun 2015
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The Salzburg Recital, 8 August 1957
Classical - Released by Music and Arts Programs of America on 3 Jul 2012
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto For Piano No. 27 In B Flat Major, KV595 / Piano Sonata No. 10 In C Major, KV330
Classical - Released by Zeroh on 4 Oct 2017
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Mozart: Piano Concertos (Live)
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 1 Jul 2015
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Schumann: Kinderszenen, Abegg Variations, Waldszenen & Bunte Blätter (Mono Version)
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1955
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Haskil, Clara: Mozart, Schumann & Beethoven (1953-1954) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Robert Schumann - Ludwig van Beethoven)
Classical - Released by Audite on 1 Jan 1953
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