10 pianists in comparison - Schubert/Liszt - Ständchen (1942-2009)

My favorite piece of Schubert when I was three or four. Eighty years later, It is still my beloved piece with a lot of memories...

merci, merci, c'est un vrai bonheur d'écouter ces différentes interprétations!

It's the most favourite piece of mine from the Western Classicals. The music transports to a different realm altogether; melancholic, nostalgic, yearning, peace. Watery pearls flow from the eyes every time I listen to it reminding me of the beloved better half I lost not so long ago and of the some of the most sweetest and memorable times spent together that we were for forty years. Intend to use it as background music in the video that I plan to make on her. This music acts as lullaby making me go to sleep at night with sweet memories, yearning and teary eyes. Prefer Katias interpretation and her interplay of fingers on the key board. Though all have played well.

Rachmaninov playing Schubert/Lizst ! What a treat !

Rachmaninoff walked to the window as his student sat down to the piano. Outside were the mimosas lining the Parisienne boulevard. "Play that, play the gold, " he requested. "Show me how," she responded. And he sat and proceeded to play the color. She never forgot. A child can imitate anything.

All of them play marvelous but Horowitz really touches my heart. Many years after his death, his widow was asked in an interview which music piece she would wants him to play at this moment. She answered without thinking a second : "The Serenade!"

alot of amazingly technically gifted pianists, but a handful can tell a story...superb! thank you

In my middle school, our music teacher taught us the song version in Korean. We had to sing it dutifully without any sentiment of a lover's yearning because romance is prohibited when you are underage. It always brings a smile when I remember those days of jumping ropes and singing this song. All are very beautiful and I like Horowitz the best.

Thank you for this wonderful compilation. It is so rich an experience to be able to listen to these many many outstanding performances of such a superbly pianistic transcription, Listz at his most persuasive, and Schubert...well, there are no words. The two performances I found to be the most beautiful, and by a significant degree, were those by Horowitz and Rachmaninoff.

AO Wow.. Finally come across this eternally beloved Schubert/Liszt - Ständchen Serenade keyboard version played by 10 great pianists - in their own individually unique.. and breathtakingly touching ways! Thank you, thank you so much for uploading.. Mucho Gracias, Mucho Gracias, Merci Beaucoup, Ich Danke Dir Sehr, Tausend Dank, Xie Xie, Xie Xie.. and for all the beautiful, lovely exquisite artworks..

Thank you! Everything is magnificent. The interpreters, the art work. All

Thank you for this wonderful compilation!!!

Professor Kaushik Liszt/ Schubert Ständchen - all are masterpieces. Imposant und beruhigend. Every night before sleep I listen to these transcending me to a different world!!! Thank you YOUTUBE!

Are there other songs that are more melancholy and sorrowful than this song？ My heart aches as I think of this great composer who died at the age of ３１．This song strongly shakes the human soul.

What music,! It dissolves all tension and stress. Wirklich erstaunlich ! Wunderschön!

Horowitz’s realisation of the “echo effect” section is unsurpassed - as if a third hand we’re playing the top line.

What a memorable collection of superb performances of this intimate Schubert piece! For this Liszt transposition, I always checks the playing time - most around 6 minutes. I tend to listen more closely those over 6 minutes as some lengthy ones close to 7 minutes! I miss Leslie Howard's recording here - he recorded entire Liszt -Schubert transposition in 1990s

So entspannend!

thank you so much

I love the comparison of famous themes. The Ginzsberg piano sounds sooo mellow. Gorgeously played. If I were serenading someone's it would be sooo subdued.