Catalan Piano Tradition - Albeniz, Marshall, Granados

Posted By : koneser | Date : 17 Mar 2010 13:05:13 | Comments : 5 |

Catalan Piano Tradition - Albeniz, Marshall, Granados
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The dynasty of Catalan pianists is slightly reminiscent of that book of the Bible which seems to consist largely of" . . . begat ....who begat. who begat ...... Liszt's pupil Pedro Tintorer (a Majorcan) taught Juan Bautista Pujol, who taught Joaquin Malats (for whom Aibéniz's Iberia was partly intended) and Granados: the latter taught Frank Marshall, who inherited Granados's piano academy and taught Alicia de Larrocha, who inherited it from him. She is represented here as a nine-year-old soloist (when her legs weren't long enough to reach the pedals) in a Chopin Nocturne, played with convulsive rubatos but a real sense of colour, and a Waltz that would have done credit to a far more experienced artist: more than 30 years later she sensitively accompanied that delightful singer, then aged nearly 70, Conchita Badia (the most distinguished interpreter of the songs of her teacher and friend Granados) in his tonadillas—though of these, La majo de Goya is to a great extent a piano solo.
Marshall's recorded legacy is unfortunately extremely sparse, apart From his accompaniments for Supervia (deeply expressive or irresistibly provocative in these tonadillas): as a soloist he made only a few Welte-Mignon piano rolls and this little Grieg dance. It, like the recordings by Albéniz and Malats, is taken from cylinders privately made, announced and applauded by an enthusiastic amateur—which at first proved unplayable! Marshall's solo is acceptably clear; Albéniz's improvisations are heard (the third with difficulty) through very loud cylinder roar, but serve to show that he must have been a brilliant pianist; Malats (also through extremely heavy rhythmic noise) pulls a Chopin Waltz about unmercifully and is obviously happier when allowed his freedom in a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, in whose closing pages he demonstrates considerable virtuosity: parts of the Liebestod are so distorted as to be unrecognizable, though the end is clear. Granados, the central figure of this disc, emerges from these wellremastered 1912 recordings as a most engaging player of great delicacy and grace, both in his own Spanish dances and his curious version of a Scarlatti sonata: it is understandable that he should have made so great an impression on the musical world of Barcelona. L.S.

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