由 Patrick 發表於 週三 7月 24, 2002 9:56 am
標 題:Maria Joao Pires 的DG新片評論
發 表 人:blue97(blue97.tw)
發表時間:2002/01/29 08:51:46
classicstoday.com已經有樂評出現,
如同我所料,評價並不高:
Maria João Pires takes Beethoven's "quasi una fantasia" heading to heart in the Op. 27 No. 2 sonata's first movement. The freedom with which the pianist inflects her basic tempo (such as rushing the ascending left hand scales in the opening measures and at similar spots elsewhere) underlines the music's playful, "keep the listener guessing" qualities. She musters just enough energy to sustain the second movement's galloping gait, but with neither Schnabel's irreverent abandon or Peter Serkin's impeccably aligned broken octaves. Pires occasionally loses melodic definition amid the Finale's contrapuntal thickets, yet her broadly paced slow movement is admirably steady and sustained. The latter adjectives hold true for her similarly brooding Adagio in the "Moonlight" Sonata, which makes its interpretive points through color and inflection rather then tempo modification along the lines of Rudolf Serkin, Solomon, and, most recently Stephen Kovacevich. Following her graceful, intermezzo-like second movement, Pires softens the Finale's fiery edges by underplaying the thunderbolt fortes and gingerly approaching the quick right hand trills.
Op. 109's poetic first movement similarly treads with caution, but Pires shares Charles Rosen and Annie Fischer's emphatic care over the Prestissimo's legato versus non-legato markings. The third movement variations are well played and intelligently paced, although the climactic trills could be fuller of body and more emotionally exultant. The pianist's overly loud dispatch of Variation II's soft, detached 16th-note patterns robs them of their mystery and obscures their kinship with the first movement. DG's sonics are warm and clear, but on the dry side. Very much a mixed bag, then, and less impressive than it should have been.
--Jed Distler