The angels were waiting

Donations Clara Haskil for music were astonishing and precocious. Legend has it that at the age of five, she was able to replay a Mozart sonata she just had heard.
Hardly entered the Vienna Conservatory, she triumphed Concerto K 488: eight years!
She was taught by Richard Robert, including another famous pupil dénomma the "Clara perfect." The tribute is eloquent when we know that it comes from Rudolf Serkin!
Concertos of Salzburger established themselves in the Haskil repertoire in the 1940s; she sang with the most prominent rods of the era: Thomas Beecham, Carl Schuricht, Ferenc Fricsay, Charles Münch, Paul Sacher, Rudolf Baumgartner ...

The K 466 had already been engraved for Philips in October 1954, with Bernhard Paumgartner leading the Wiener Symphoniker.
Six years later, she re-recorded in Paris and the 491 K, together with Igor Markevitch. In these two works the most dramatic corpus of Mozart, the Orchestre Lamoureux also shows specific trait of rich colors (superb oboe and bassoon!)

These testimonies we hear here are all the more poignant when one considers that the Romanian pianist was tragically disappear a few days later by a fatal fall to the Brussels Gare 6 December 1960.

Sobriety, the perfect curve of his game, the subtle nuances and darkened his palette still show an extraordinary technician keyboard.
But mostly, fingers express a constant and exact justice of feeling conquered from grace and not by the facility, as under the influence of a transcendent inspiration that, as said Nikita Magaloff, it seemed to come "straight from heaven" .