Edwin Fischer plays Mozart Fantasie in C minor KV 475

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Fantasie in C minor KV 475 (1785) - Adagio Edwin Fischer (1886-1960), piano Recorded in 1941. ALFRED BRENDEL “Edwin Fischer: Remembering My Teacher“ (1960) From Musical Thoughts & Afterthoughts Edwin Fischer was, on the concert platform, a short, leonine, resilient figure, whose every fibre seemed to vibrate with elemental musical power. Wildness and gentleness were never far from each other in his piano-playing, and demonic outbursts would magically give way to inner peace. It was as little trouble to him (as Alfred Polgar once said of an actor) to lose himself as to find himself. His playing of slow movements was full of an unselfconsciousness beside which the music-making of others, famous names included, seemd academic or insincere. With Fischer, one was in more immediate contact with the music: there was no curtain before his soul when he communicated with the audience. One other musician, Furtwängler, convey