Jörg Demus RIP

[verismissimo]

Leading soloist and accompanist over so many decades. At 90.

Currently listening with pleasure to his muscular Davidsbundlertanze from the 1970s.

[gurnemanz]

Jörg Demus RIP

I've just read that Jörg Demus died two days ago aged 90. A great life in music. Still playing from memory until recently. Some favourites: Haydn, Schubert and Schumann songs with Emmy Ameling. Solo Schumann. I'm very fond of his 1964 Winterreise with Julius Patzak.

[Bryn]

Sad news indeed. I will listen to his Diabelli Variations (Broadwood and Graf instruments) later.

[Richard Tarleton]

Indeed - I feel a Wintereisse coming on.

I've merged the threads, which were a minute apart.

[Conchis]

He was the Austrian Gerald Moore.

Or maybe Gerald Moore was the British Jorg Demus?

[Bryn]

He was the Austrian Gerald Moore.

Or maybe Gerald Moore was the British Jorg Demus?

I think he had a rather more extensive solo career than Gerald Moore did. Indeed, it is principally as a solo and piano duet/duo performer that I know his work.

[Richard Barrett]

I think he had a rather more extensive solo career than Gerald Moore did. Indeed, it is principally as a solo and piano duet/duo performer that I know his work.

Pioneer of the fortepiano too.

[Keraulophone]

When Fischer-Dieskau celebrated his 70th birthday at the Wigmore Hall, being interviewed and playing a selection of his favourite recordings, the Dichterliebe he chose from the several he had recorded was the one he taped in stereo for DG in 1965 with Jörg Demus. That’s a pretty good recommendation by someone in the know when one considers who those other pianists were.

Here is JD, aged 78, partnering another great Schubertian, Paul Badura-Skoda, in the sublime Schubert Fantaisie in F minor, filmed in 2007 in Paris.

https://youtu.be/Dp8W7pSTBmw

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R.I.P.


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[Bryn]

Pioneer of the fortepiano too.

Can we get his name right in the thread title perhaps?

Indeed. It is in that role that I first encountered his work:

[MickyD]

I was very sad to hear this. I loved so many of his early LPs for DHM and have longed hoped that they will re-release some of his beautiful recordings of Schumann on early pianos. I'll keep my fingers crossed that DHM do him proud very soon.