Joyce Hatto: Iberia on Concert Artist CACD 9120-2
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- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 00:50:46 +0200 (CEST)
On Jun 24 2005, 12:35 pm, Tom Deacon <non...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are truly extraordinary times for the Albeniz' masterpieceIberia.
First we have had the revelatory remastering of AdL's stereo Hispavox
recording of the work from the early 1960s.
Then came MAH's inspired reading for Hyperion, setting a new technical
standard for this work in my opinion.
And now, from an unlikely source, I would say without any prejudice to her,
we have the complete Iberia on ONE CD from the English pianist JoyceHatto.
One wonders whether there is anything this fine pianist cannot play. Her
recent recordings have included the complete Beethoven sonatas, the complete
Prokofiev sonatas, the complete Rachmaninoff concerti, everything Chopin
ever wrote, and so on and so on. Even the Chopin-Godowsky Etudes, which I
await from Crotchet with keen anticipation. Certainly her reading ofIberia,
more subdued and perhaps less incisive - although that may be the quality of
her Steinway rather than her playing - than MAH's, but no less technically
expert, reveals a complete grasp of the idiom as well as an intellectual
grasp of the music. Her reading in, for example, the Fete Dieu, a
notoriously treacherous piece requiring a command of the layering of musical
information, is both eloquent AND unstressed. Her rhetorical pacing of the
melody in the central episode is a model of control and sensitivity. If you
are not moved at this kind of playing, you are made of stone, I would
suggest. Strangely, her intellectual grasp of this music reminds me of my
recent experience of the music with Yvonne Loriod.
Not only does one ask whether there is anything Joyce Hattocannot play, one
is forced also to ask WHY we have not been enjoying her artistry for more of
her 75 years. A student of Cortot, Joyce Hattostill has much to offer us in
a wide range of music.
So, another high water mark forIberia.
What remains to be done? Well, I would like the Loriod to see the light of
day again. And surely Michel Block deserves to be reissued by French EMI, as
does the Querol set, which, however, is not really that good. And, perhaps
for completeness, EMI should dig up the mono version Alicia de Larrocha made
in the mid 1950s which was issued in the USA by Columbia Records.
In the meantime, it has to be said that about one hundred years from the
date of its creation, Albeniz'Iberia is in very good hands. Perhaps it will
no longer be regarded as 12 postcards from Spain, but as one of the greatest
pieces of music ever written for the piano. Both Joyce Hattoand Marc-Andre
Hamelin have shown us that, albeit in quite different ways.
TD
LOL!!!!!! WOT A DOOP!!!!!!!!!!!
Percy
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