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In Reply to: Re: posted by newyorkp7 on February 26, 2007 at 11:22:19:
a critic who's heard maybe 60 versions of a given Chopin etude for not remembering each one note-for-note.Betcha they run all their discs by itunes from now on, however!
Meanwhile, Gramophone has been hemorrhaging credibility for ages--they'll save themselves by being first to report "the truth" as if they weren't taken in by it.
Tough crowd for the "tired" and "not well" Barrington-Coupe here, though. Wonder if he'll get his "little peace."
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...why did the critics find the music so wonderful when they believed it was performed by Hatto and so (apparently) forgettable from the actual performers???
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were so "incredible" (sic!:-), then why weren't the originals reviewed that way, or held in such high regard? Yes, the originals were known, and were by some major artists but...Hatto was being hyped by "those in the know" as the second coming -- and they now have egg on their faces. To you point, the original recordings would border on legendary if they had Hatto's face on the cover? Hatto was embraced as a novelty, it seems to me ("greatest unknown pianist"). Some folks don't even need to LISTEN to recordings to take THAT kind of bait -- and there it is!
I should hire you to be my AA post ghost-writer! :)
kerr,Reading reviews and comments, it seems the reviewers were especially impressed by the versatile, idiomatic performances- all supposedly from one person. On one recording "Hatto" was the perfect Chopin solist, then an astounding Beethoven concerto player, then a Debussy expert. Plus, over 100 CDs appeared in the short time of a few years.
I think you would find that the performances selected by B-C were all highly regarded originally. As the cost was the same for each version and he wanted to create this artificial glorious legacy for his wife, he may as well pick the best!
Cheers,
Bambi B
Makes sense. She all of a sudden became not only highly prolific but nigh well perfect at all she touched.I'm just surprised this scam lasted this long. I would imagine it's a source of embarrassment to the music reviewers.
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"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
suggestivity... just like many other items in audio ;-))
Would you mind using suggesitivity on me so that I can buy a Yorx rack system and believe it's transparent to the source? :)
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"Hard to fault a critic who's heard maybe 60 versions of a given
Chopin etude for not remembering each one note for note"...I tend to agree, but hesitated to say so.
This story has had me fascinated for the past week or so. I think that, more than anything strictly musical, it says much about the star making machinery of certain elements of the business. And it says loads about what certain elements of the listening public really want.
Thanks,
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