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In Reply to: Hard to fault posted by markrohr on February 26, 2007 at 12:17:18:
...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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