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In Reply to: RE: Khatia is definitely not a partisan of the "every note in its place" school! posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 26, 2016 at 09:39:08
Amazing playing - and I say that even though I don't agree with all the details. In fact, there's one detail in the "Con mortuis in lingua mortua" section of "Pictures at an Exhibition" which sounds to me like a complete misreading (unless I'm out of my mind!): when the ghostly transformation of the Promenade theme comes in below the tremolo right hand, she plays it in the major, rather than the indicated minor. I just checked the Pavel Lamm edition again on IMSLP, and, sure enough, it should be MINOR. WTF? I'll check again tomorrow, but this seems crazy right now.As for everything else: Fearless Virtuosa is right!
ADDENDUM: I just checked with some spectrograph software, and it doesn't look as if there's much above 16KHz in terms of musical signal. That seems to be the nature of piano recordings anyway, but 24/192 sure does seem like overkill. But no matter: the SQ is excellent in any case.
Edits: 04/26/16Follow Ups:
What I can't figure out is why SOMEONE involved with this recording didn't point this out to her (i.e., that the transformation of the Promenade theme in the "Con mortuis in lingua mortua" movement - just before Baba Yaga - should be in the MINOR mode and not, as Khatia misreads it, in the MAJOR mode) - are they clueless too? No one on Amazon has noticed this yet? No reviewer has noticed this? I mean, this is basic stuff.
Or maybe there's some new crazy new edition out now? (Not!)
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Khatia plays without fear.... It's a rare trait for any classical musician.... George Szell would have gone zonkers over her...... (The only other musician who I thought played fearless to this level was former Cleveland orchestra trumpeter Bernard Adelstein.)
Link is Rachmaninoff Three..... It seems like she can command extra focus from a youth orchestra (accompaniment)...... Some might not like her selection of tempi, which happens to be "white hot"..... But unlike a lot of "fast" performers (most notably Martha Argerich), Khatia does not lose articulation...... This performance would make Vlad Horowitz smile in his grave.
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