RIP Paul Badura-Skoda

[visualnickmos]

A selection of Schubert piano sonatas from the RCA box set (complete) played by Paul Badura-Skoda, who died yesterday.

[Bryn]

A selection of Schubert piano sonatas from the RCA box set (complete) played by Paul Badura-Skoda, who died yesterday.

Sad news. So glad I got to hear him at King Place, back in 2012. Whether playing historical instruments of his favourite Bösendorfer, his performances rarely disappointed.

[gurnemanz]

RIP Paul Badura-Skoda

Paul Badura-Skoda died yesterday. Appreciation from Rob Cowan in Gramophone. I'll be listening to him play a Schubert Sonata on fortepiano.

[CallMePaul]

Sad news indeed. I have enjoyed his period instrument set of the Schubert sonatas, which I play regularly, and have admired his other performances of the Viennese classics. Until I read the Gramophone article I had not been aware of just how wide-ranging his repertoire was, and I must investigate further.

RIP Paul

[Richard Tarleton]

Can someone please transfer to here posts #8670 and 8671 from the "What are you listening to now" thread?

Done.

[Dave2002]

Sad indeed - https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classic...-the-age-of-91 - though I didn't realise he was still alive until yesterday. I never got to hear him in concert.

Also https://www.tellerreport.com/news/20...1-6X_mqDS.html

Paul B-S RIP

[Bryn]

Done.

The 2012 concert I attended at Kings Place was a tribute to Dino Lipatti. There is a CD which was associated with the tour PB-S made at that time:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tribute-Dino-Lipatti-Paul-Badura-Skoda/dp/B01K8LTKLU

[richardfinegold]

We discussed him briefly on a thread on Beethoven’s Op. 57 recently. One of my first lps. R.I.P.

[jayne lee wilson]

I love the Mozart Piano Quartets he recorded with the Festetics, which I discovered around the time of the BaL a few months ago....
Real growers, among my favourite for the works now.

[Richard Tarleton]

Rob Cowan's piece refers to his scholarship - "He was widely celebrated for his musical scholarship, often along with his wife Eva Badura-Skoda". Several references to this (in relation to Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert) in his friend Alfred Brendel's books The Veil of Order and Music, Sense and Nonsense - along with an account of meeting Glenn Gould at Badura-Skoda's house in Vienna.

[Keraulophone]

Dino Lipatti

Pedants’ Paradise: Dinu

PB-S was also known as an editor of Schubert piano works, eg the G.Henle Urtext edition of the sonatas. I often found his comments and suggestions for fingering useful. Sadly, I never had the opportunity of hearing him play live. I’ll go and play the G flat Impromptu on my (retirement present to myself) Bösendorfer as a private tribute and thank-you to a fine pianist and musicologist.

[Richard Tarleton]

Excellent if belated obituary in today's Times.