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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Schumann: Concerto pour piano, Op. 54 (Mono Version)
Clara Haskil, Willem van Otterloo, Het Residentie Orkest
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Récital de Besançon, 7 septembre 1956
Classical - Released by INA Mémoire vive on 27/06/2001
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Mozart / Beethoven: Piano Concertos (Haskil) (1954-1956)
Classical - Released by Music and Arts Programs of America on 11/03/2002
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Clara Haskil / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet play: Robert Schumann: Klavierkonzert, op. 54 (1956)
Clara Haskil, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Concertos - Released by Classico Ivano on 6/03/2015
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Schumann: Works for Piano (Live)
Clara Haskil, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 27/01/2010
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Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 3 and 4
Clara Haskil, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Franc, Charles Munch, André Cluytens /conductor)
Classical - Released by Archipel on 24/04/2007
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Clara Haskil, piano ● Arthur Grumiaux, violin : Beethoven ● Mozart
Classical - Released by Ermitage Records on 12/03/2023
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Grandi maestri dell'interpretazione: Clara Haskil, Vol. 3
Clara Haskil, Geza Anda, French Radio Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Paul Hindemith, Bernhard Paumgartner
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 1/01/1988
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Klemperer Rarities: Montreux
Anonyme, Gurzenich Orchestra, Audience, Orchestre National de France, Clara Haskil, Otto Klemperer
Classical - Released by Archiphon on 30/04/2013
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Beethoven: Intégrale en quatre disques des dix sonates pour violon et piano, Vol. 1 (Mono Version)
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1958
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Mozart: Concertos pour piano Nos. 20 & 23 (Mono Version)
Clara Haskil, Bernhard Paumgartner, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Beethoven: Sonates pour violon et piano Nos. 6 & 9 (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1958
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Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Träumerei
Classical - Released by Profil on 23/09/2022
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano 5 - 6 - 7
Chamber Music - Released by Zeroh on 16/06/2017
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Mozart: Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K. 386 & Rondeau, from Violin Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1958
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Milestones of a Legend - Arthur Grumiaux, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Documents 2 on 13/12/2014
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Clara Haskil / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Otto Ackermann play: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 9, KV 271
Clara Haskil, Kölner Rundfunksinfonieorchester
Concertos - Released by Classico Ivano on 30/01/2015
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Beethoven & Schumann: Piano Concertos (Live)
Clara Haskil, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg, Mario Rossi, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 8/04/2013
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Clara Haskil - Milestones of a Legend, Vol. 7
Classical - Released by Documents 2 on 13/12/2014
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Inédits Clara Haskil
Rias-Kammerchor Und Rias-Sinfonieorchester, Ferenc Fricsay, Clara Haskil, Studio-Orchester Beromünster
Classical - Released by Tahra on 16/12/2008
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