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There must be more to Clara Haskil than merely her defective technique. There would have to be, or Philips would not have reissued this seven-disc collection of her recordings made between 1951 and 1960. But, after listening to Haskil play, it's hard to say what that more might be. In the solo works, Haskil's tempos are full of extravagant rubato and unscheduled accelerandos, while her textures are thick with smudged inner lines. In the works with orchestra, she's the same only more so with unexpected tempo changes that leave the conductor scrambling and a tone that only rarely manages to rise above the level of the orchestra. Of course, all that interpretive heaving and hoing came standard equipment with her training in the French post-Romantic style by Alfred Cortot, but even for that famously sloppy school, Haskil was an amazingly sloppy pianist. Listen just to her 1959 performance of the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto with Willem van Otterloo and the Philharmonisches Orchester Den Haag: listen to the smashed chords of the opening flourish, to the flailed double octaves at the first theme's climax, to the callous shallowness of her second theme's tone, to the missed notes in the build up to the third theme's climax, and especially to the buckets of dropped notes in the cadenza's hardest passages. Though she can get through the easier works here, and though she does bring to slow movements a species of barely restrained intensity, there is not much more to Haskil, finally, than the vicarious thrill of her nervous excitement. Unlike Philips' golden and glowing later piano sound, the sound here is dim, gray, and grim even in the more recent recordings.
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Sonata in E flat major K.193 (Domenico Scarlatti)
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1951 Universal International Music B.V.
Sonata in B minor, K.87 (Domenico Scarlatti)
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1951 Universal International Music B.V.
Sonata in F minor, K.386 (Domenico Scarlatti)
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1951 Universal International Music B.V.
Nine Variations in D, K.573 on a minuet by J.P. Duport (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Piano Sonata No. 10 In C Major, K.330 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Sonatine, M.40 - for Piano (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Bunte Blätter, Op. 99 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
Abegg Variations, Op.1 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1952 Universal International Music B.V.
DISC 2
Kinderszenen, Op. 15 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Waldszenen, Op. 82 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Robert Schumann, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1954 Universal International Music B.V.
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 -"Tempest" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31 No. 3 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 Universal International Music B.V.
DISC 3
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat, D.960 (Franz Schubert)
Franz Schubert, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1951 Universal International Music B.V.
Franz Schubert, Composer - Clara Haskil, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1951 Universal International Music B.V.
Album review
There must be more to Clara Haskil than merely her defective technique. There would have to be, or Philips would not have reissued this seven-disc collection of her recordings made between 1951 and 1960. But, after listening to Haskil play, it's hard to say what that more might be. In the solo works, Haskil's tempos are full of extravagant rubato and unscheduled accelerandos, while her textures are thick with smudged inner lines. In the works with orchestra, she's the same only more so with unexpected tempo changes that leave the conductor scrambling and a tone that only rarely manages to rise above the level of the orchestra. Of course, all that interpretive heaving and hoing came standard equipment with her training in the French post-Romantic style by Alfred Cortot, but even for that famously sloppy school, Haskil was an amazingly sloppy pianist. Listen just to her 1959 performance of the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto with Willem van Otterloo and the Philharmonisches Orchester Den Haag: listen to the smashed chords of the opening flourish, to the flailed double octaves at the first theme's climax, to the callous shallowness of her second theme's tone, to the missed notes in the build up to the third theme's climax, and especially to the buckets of dropped notes in the cadenza's hardest passages. Though she can get through the easier works here, and though she does bring to slow movements a species of barely restrained intensity, there is not much more to Haskil, finally, than the vicarious thrill of her nervous excitement. Unlike Philips' golden and glowing later piano sound, the sound here is dim, gray, and grim even in the more recent recordings.
© TiVo
About the album
- 7 disc(s) - 87 track(s)
- Total length: 08:15:46
- Main artists: Clara Haskil
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: Original Masters
© 2006 Decca Music Group Limited This Compilation ℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
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