鋼琴家 Edwin Fischer

'Put life into the music without doing violence to it.' --Edwin Fischer



Alfred Brendel 談到他的老師 Edwin Fischer :



....The personal, 'impossible' element in Edwin Fischer was twofold:

his playing sprang from a childlike nature, yet, if the signs were favourable,

it also possessed all the wisdom of the experienced master.



The childlike characteristics were his sincerity and spontaneity,

his ready sense of wonder, constantly rediscovered,

his joy in playing, clowning, daring

-- with what breathless gusto he sometimes romped through a Mozart Allegro!



The master in Fischer was proclaimed by his gift for emotional differentiation,

by the beauty of his tone and its extreme refinements,

by his vision as well as by his grasp of the grand design.

Child and master formed a perfect union in Fischer's happiest achievements;

there was nothing to pull them apart....



...There are pianists whose playing is so predictable

that if they fell into a faint it would create a welcome diversion.

Fischer could spring a surprise at every note;

he could also alarm you with his nerves, or make your hair stand on end

with his childish fancies (as in his dreadful cadenzas!).



There are pianists who hang on the music like parasites,

and there are the platform hyenas who devour masterpieces like carrion.



Fischer was a giver; he let out his breath and recommended his pupils

to practise exhaling every morning. (Inhaling, he said, was easy.)

This 'musical exhalation' was made possible by a singularly relaxed technique.

Though it also gave rise to some inaccuracies,

these in the end mattered little;

the gain was overwhelming.....