Der Muller und der Bach, D
795 #19 (arranged by Franz Liszt)
Arcadi Volodos, piano
by
Jon
Yungkans
This disc should convince even some die-hards that
Arcadi Volodos can play with more subtlety than a Mack truck.
For anyone who doesn’t have that preconception, it should be
delightful.
Another complaint
about Volodos is that he plays everything like it is
Rachmaninoff. Vladimir Horowitz used to get a similar rap,
which plays for an ironic parallel. For most of his career,
Volodos’ primary focus has seemed to be channeling Horowitz,
playing Volodya’s transcriptions and some of the warhorses for
which he was well known (Rachnaninoff 3rd and
Tchaikovsky 1st concertos). Now the pendulum has
swung to Volodos’ supposedly bad habits being compared to
Horowitz’s as well.
From
this disc, it looks like a second pendulum has swung back – away
from Horowitz and, perhaps, toward Volodos’ true métier. As
much as he tried, Horowitz could never play Schubert
convincingly. Volodos takes to it as though born to it, and
perhaps he was. Raised in a family of singers and trained as
such before turning to the keyboard, Volodos plays these two
sonatas not only persuasively, but as though he has had a long
an intimate association with their composer’s writing – which of
course he has.
He also captures
something most pianists, recently, have missed in Schubert’s
music – a singing line and cantabile that continually run
through the Austrian’s oeuvre. Essentially, Schubert was
incapable of writing anything that wasn’t a song without words –
both a blessing and a bane for the composer that grew as his
days on the planet shortened. Like Schubert, Volodos cannot
escape from playing as though he is singing at the keyboard, not
just in his legato but also in phrasing, inflection, and subtle,
flowing gradations of color and shadow. This is not blessing
and curse, though. This is pure rapture from beginning to end.
As
for any Horowitz-isms, there are some overly emphasized accents
in the opening movement of the E major sonata, D 157, but far
fewer than Volodya‘s. On the whole, Volodos treats this piece
with Haydnesque playfulness and charm (another irony since
Horowitz was much better in Haydn than in Mozart). With the G
major sonata, D 894, comparisons with Sviatoslav Richter are
inevitable. Like Richter, Volodos takes his time – too much
time, some would complain – to allow the vistas to unfold in all
their beauty, majesty and, later, terror. But with Volodos, the
tragedy is more finely shaded than Richter‘s – hinted at rather
than overtly stated, making it more insidious when it comes
around the next harmonic turn and to creep more tellingly into
our consciousness as we hear what it taking place. As finely
crafted drama as well as music, it is extremely effective. Now
if Volodos would increase his Schubert offerings with more gems
like these. (above left: who's the handsome laddie then?
Franz Schubert of course! Drawing by L Kupelwieser, 1813)
Unfortunately, as
the liner notes point out, this was the final recording to be
made in the Vienna Sofiensaal before it was destroyed in a fire
in August 2001. A hall with a long musical history (Johann
Strauss Jr. presented ballroom evenings with his orchestra
there, some of which Brahms may have attended), it was noted for
its excellent acoustics and round, warm sound. A sad
postscript, but at least with this beautiful tribute a fitting
musical epitaph remains.
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From
this disc, it looks like a second pendulum has swung back – away
from Horowitz and, perhaps, toward Volodos’ true métier. As
much as he tried, Horowitz could never play Schubert
convincingly. Volodos takes to it as though born to it, and
perhaps he was. Raised in a family of singers and trained as
such before turning to the keyboard, Volodos plays these two
sonatas not only persuasively, but as though he has had a long
an intimate association with their composer’s writing – which of
course he has.
As
for any Horowitz-isms, there are some overly emphasized accents
in the opening movement of the E major sonata, D 157, but far
fewer than Volodya‘s. On the whole, Volodos treats this piece
with Haydnesque playfulness and charm (another irony since
Horowitz was much better in Haydn than in Mozart). With the G
major sonata, D 894, comparisons with Sviatoslav Richter are
inevitable. Like Richter, Volodos takes his time – too much
time, some would complain – to allow the vistas to unfold in all
their beauty, majesty and, later, terror. But with Volodos, the
tragedy is more finely shaded than Richter‘s – hinted at rather
than overtly stated, making it more insidious when it comes
around the next harmonic turn and to creep more tellingly into
our consciousness as we hear what it taking place. As finely
crafted drama as well as music, it is extremely effective. Now
if Volodos would increase his Schubert offerings with more gems
like these. (above left: who's the handsome laddie then?
Franz Schubert of course! Drawing by L Kupelwieser, 1813)
