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'HATTO' MOZART SONATAS PROBABLY IDENTIFIED

Posted by Ramesh (A) on February 23, 2007 at 14:16:05

Jed Distler in classicstoday.com gave Hatto's Mozart sonatas 10/10 for both performance and recorded sound.

This is Bryce Morrison's review of the same in the January 'Gramophone'. Last half : "Even with the likes of Pires, Uchida and Schiff before her, Hatto surely trumps everyone's ace, registering everything with a rare sense of discovery and delight. Scrupulously true to the score, she offers her own personal illumination, acutely yet naturally sensitive to the profound inner light that so often shines beneath Mozart's outwardly benign surface."

"Doubting Thomases should turn for confirmation to the slow movement of K533, where Mozart's audacities are registered with an ease which makes them all the more telling. Again, try the opening adagio from K282, where Hatto's speculation is the opposite of indulgence and where she is never lost in her own reverie. In the great A minor sonata, her performance is quite without a more familiar driven and disfiguring quality, its drama wistful rather than aggressively caught. And if K545 is impeccable in both line and detail, it is never merely bright-eyed in a way that can make, say, Ingrid Haebler's Mozart an altogether more limited experience. Overall, more beguiling but natural Mozart playing would be hard to imagine. Above all, Hatto's warmth and humanity shine through page after page, and she has been beautifully recorded."

I had a hunch that Hatto's performances were derived, at least in part from Haebler's late Denon set, based on stylistic grounds. [ The Haebler is available from hmv.co.jp at a very good price.] I placed a notice on the gramophone forum board to this effect. Overnight, the pristineclassical.com website has placed waveform analysis which virtually proves that at least one Hatto Mozart CD has been copied from one Haebler Denon CD.
Morrison's review forgot that Haebler had recorded the Mozart cycle at least twice. He must have been referring to the early Haebler Philips recording, because Denon classical never had good distribution outside of Japan.

Summary. If the doctored CDs sound great, the original Haebler Mozart set from Denon is well worth purchasing as the top choice for both music and sound quality!

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