Angela Hewitt's new Liszt recording

Posted by: VladtheImpala on 01 February 2015

For info - now available from the Hyperion web site - £9:00 for the 24 bit version & £8:00 for the 16 bit. 

 

AH plays the piano sonata and four selections from the Annees de pelerinage, second year.

 

 

Posted on: 01 February 2015 by hungryhalibut

I received the email from Hyperion today, and was thinking about this. What do you think of it?

Posted on: 01 February 2015 by VladtheImpala

Hi HH,

I've got nothing to compare it with - I don't have an alternative version of this work.

 

EDIT - don't even know my own collection. I do have another version by Pierre-Laurent Aimard on his Liszt Project disc. Haven't had time to make a comparison, though.

 

I'm a big fan of her Bach recordings as well as her Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy and Faure discs.

 

Regards,

Vlad

Posted on: 01 February 2015 by Bert Schurink

Outside her magnificent Bach work I think she has also an interesting approach to other work, while being closer to Bach and the guys who lived in that similar period before and after.

so for those 9 pounds I will give it a try....

Posted on: 01 February 2015 by VladtheImpala
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:

Outside her magnificent Bach work I think she has also an interesting approach to other work, while being closer to Bach and the guys who lived in that similar period before and after.

so for those 9 pounds I will give it a try....

Pretty much my rationalisation. I like the way she is able to shine a light on the inner workings of a piece and still make it a whole. Not yet sure if this works for Liszt - need few more listens.

 

BTW, Hyperions's free Feb sampler has Hewitts's account of the first movement of the sonata.

 

Regards,

Vlad

Posted on: 02 February 2015 by EJS

Well, I think the bleeding chunk on the sampler is next to useless, but for what it's worth I wholeheartedly recommend this disc, it's one of the finer interpretations I have heard.

 

EJ 

Posted on: 02 February 2015 by VladtheImpala
Originally Posted by EJS:

Well, I think the bleeding chunk on the sampler is next to useless, but for what it's worth I wholeheartedly recommend this disc, it's one of the finer interpretations I have heard.

 

EJ 

EJ,

But not entirely useless? Isn't that the nature os samplers?

Posted on: 02 February 2015 by EJS
Originally Posted by VladtheImpala:
Originally Posted by EJS:

Well, I think the bleeding chunk on the sampler is next to useless, but for what it's worth I wholeheartedly recommend this disc, it's one of the finer interpretations I have heard.

 

EJ 

EJ,

But not entirely useless? Isn't that the nature os samplers?

Maybe; but this particular cut starts after the build-up of one of the early tension arches in the sonata has started, then finishes before the payoff. You don't really get a sense of what Hewitt is after.

 

EJ

Posted on: 02 February 2015 by VladtheImpala
Originally Posted by EJS:
Originally Posted by VladtheImpala:
Originally Posted by EJS:

Well, I think the bleeding chunk on the sampler is next to useless, but for what it's worth I wholeheartedly recommend this disc, it's one of the finer interpretations I have heard.

 

EJ 

EJ,

But not entirely useless? Isn't that the nature os samplers?

Maybe; but this particular cut starts after the build-up of one of the early tension arches in the sonata has started, then finishes before the payoff. You don't really get a sense of what Hewitt is after.

 

EJ

I hadn't realised that it was a curtailed version of the movement, not having played the sampler. That is disappointing.