PC World Magazine July 2009
English | 112 pages | PDF | 36,47 mb
English | 112 pages | PDF | 36,47 mb
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“ | Dessay acts vividly with the voice, compensating for a narrow spectrum of colour through phrasing, dynamic shading and timing. While Sills, especially, brought more fever to Lucia di Lammermoor 's celebrated "Mad Scene", Dessay's trancelike delicacy, in tandem with a ghostly glass harmonica (a flute is often used instead) is profoundly touching. She beautifully suggests Violetta's youth and fragility in "Ah! fors' è lui", and evokes a reckless gaiety (triplets and trills dazzlingly precise) in the following cabaletta. Roberto Alagna's cameo appearance as Alfredo is the ultimate in luxury casting. Elsewhere Dessay catches the Bellinian morbidezza of Juliet's despairing scena from I Capuleti e I Montecchi, and the innocence of Gilda's "Caro nome", sung with tenderly softened tone. Her Maria Stuarda, too, is movingly characterised, whether in the sudden surge of joy of "O nube!" or the pathos of the aria. | ” |
Somewhat to my surprise, the Ashkenazy cycle is the best recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas. I bought every Beethoven recording by every major Beethoven pianist and spent over 1,000 hours comparing all those recordings to each other. The only cycles close to the Ashkenazy are the little-known Claude Frank, Seymour Lipkin and Paul Badura-Skoda cycles (the Badura-Skoda cycle of 1970 on the grand piano, not the fortepiano version). After those come the better-known cycles by Richard Goode, Barenboim (2nd cycle, for DGG), and Kempff (2nd cycle, in stereo), and the little-known cycle by Annie Fischer. I leave aside the Schnabel set which continues to define the standard for interpretations despite inadequate sound, and many high-quality recordings by Richter who never did a complete cycle. I say "somewhat to my surprise," because Ashkenazy is not known as a Beethoven pianist. He is regarded as a great interpreter of romantic music, with the big technique and beautiful tone needed for that repertoire. Well, he has the big technique and beautiful tone, which is good. However, what is most noticeable to me is the scrupulous attention paid to Beethoven's text. In that regard, Ashkenazy is the equal of Claude Frank and Rudolf Serkin, which is high praise indeed. The purpose of buying a complete cycle is usually to form a base for a collection. One can quibble with some of Ashkenazy's interpretative details or with Decca's recording techniques. However, the question then becomes: what is the alternative? The competing cycles are either a little worse or a lot worse. After buying one complete cycle, the lover of Beethoven can then add a number of other sonata recordings -- the Horowitz recordings for RCA Victor, the Rubinstein recordings, the Gieseking disk of the Pathetique and other works, the Pollini late sonatas, many of the Richter recordings. If I am asked to recommend one Beethoven sonata cycle as the basis for a collection, I would unhesitatingly recommend the Ashkenazy Decca cycle. |
This reissue of the 1965 Ashkenazy recital on LP maintains the original French program intact, which may not appeal to the collector who prefers a longer disc, one that perhaps could have attached Ashkenazy's work from the same period in Chopin and Bach with conductor David Zinman. At the time, Ashkenazy had been making his reputation (after the Tchaikovsky Competition, where he shared honors with John Ogden) as the hot young firebrand, big on bravura in the Horowitz tradition. |
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“ | Few Pianists have Explored and Recorded Such a Wealth of Keyboard Literature as Vladimir Ashkenazy. During an Association with Decca which Stretches Back Almost 40 Years Now, Ashkenazy Has Completed Cycles of Some of the Most Important Concertos (Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bartók and Rachmaninov), as Well as an Extensive Amount of Solo Literature.two Of the Greatest Figures in 19th-century Piano Music Are Chopin and Schumann, and Music by Both Composers Has Featured, and Continues to Feature, in Ashkenazy's Recitals. He Has Recorded Almost all of Chopin Solo Works and During the Years 1984-95 Undertook a Major Survey of Schumann's Solo Literature (Some Works Including the Sinfonische Etüden, Fantasie, Kreisleriana and Humoreske) Ashkenazy Had Recorded Earlier in his Career). These Digital Recordings Are Now Presented as a Box Set for the First Time and Are an Invaluable Collection of the Composer's Most Important Keyboard Works, Performed by One of the Greatest Pianists of his.................. |
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