I do think hes the best, specially with the sonatas. Whats your opinion?
He is one of the best, along with Gilels, Richter & Kempff. I love his Waldstein and Hammerklavier renditions the best. I agree that he is also a fantasic Schubert player too.
Best Beethoven interpreter: My grand-teacher, Claudio Arrau.
He's my Teacher's Teacher's Teacher. So I guess he would be my great grand teacher?
Oh yeah! Well my teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher was Franz Liszt himself!(Me -> Roger Price -> Sequeira Costa -> Vianna da Motta -> Franz Liszt)And in a way..... that means that my teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher was Haydn!(Me -> Roger Price -> Sequeira Costa -> Vianna da Motta -> Franz Liszt -> Czerny -> Beethoven -> Mozart -> Haydn)
Me -> my mother -> my mother's teacher -> her teacher -> Sergei RachmaninoffThough Rachmaninoff was never known to take on "pupils" as other pianists did, he had to give private lessons a few times in his life in order to feed himself. And thus, I have legacy to him. Yayyay!
i'm from canada, and at least my favorite interpreter in canada would be robert silverman, a senior professor at UBC.
Ummm, so was mine and Darkwinds:Me -> my prof -> Arrau -> Krause -> LisztDarkwind -> his prof -> his prof -> Arrau -> Krause -> LisztIf someone made a family tree of all of our teacher lineages, I'm sure we'd all be "related."
In fact, Beethoven was livid when Haydn criticised his compositions. And eventually they departed as teacher and pupil, the teacher complaining that the pupil would not learn anything, and the pupil complaining that the teacher had nothing to teach him. In fact, as Beethoven fame started to eclipse Haydn, Haydn begged for Beethoven to dedicate a work to him saying “to my master, Haydn”. You see, he knew that posterity might remember him only as Beethoven’s teacher. Yet Beethoven would not bulge and although he did dedicate the three Op. 2 sonatas to Haydn, he never acknowledged him as his teacher (the dedication reads simply: “Dedicated to Joseph Haydn”). They never saw eye to eye after that, although they treated each other politely.[/quote)]To finish the story about the dedication of Beethoven's OP 2 - When Beethoven's Op.2 sonatas were being published Haydn asked himwhy he didn't put the dedication "to my master Haydn". To this Beethoven responds "Because I didn't learn anything from you"Kind of gives you a picture of Beethoven's character! In my opinion, Op2 does contain influence of Haydn, mostly in the second movements.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Daniel Barenboim in their opinion on who's the best Beethoven interpreter.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Richard Goode. His rendition of the Sonatas is very good. If one is studying the Sonatas and needs a recording, the look no further. His interpretations are very "pure" in the sense that they are very true to the score and the "composer's intent." Clean, solid Beethoven at its finest.
Schnebel and Goode for complete editions.