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Mozart - Claudio Arrau at Tanglewood 1964 (2013) {2CD Music & Arts CD-1274}

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Mozart - Claudio Arrau at Tanglewood 1964 (2013) {2CD Music & Arts CD-1274}

Mozart - Claudio Arrau at Tanglewood 1964 (2013) {2CD Music & Arts CD-1274}
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© 1964, 2013 Music & Arts | CD-1274
Classical / Piano / Recital

Nothing could be more different than Arrau's approach to Mozart even in the early stages of his career. Certainly, other pianists in those days gave full value to the dramatic power of the minor-key sonatas. But very few approached with the sheer volcanic force he brought to those bass octaves and no-holds-barred style in seemingly less serious works.
Mozart - Claudio Arrau at Tanglewood 1964 (2013) {2CD Music & Arts CD-1274}

Early in his career Claudio Arrau was renowned for his Berlin recital cycles which featured all of the keyboard works of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, undertakings that demanded tremendous resources of memory and stamina. After coming to the States in 1941, he rarely undertook these stressful cycles. In fact, Arrau stopped playing Bach in the late 1940's believing that the composer's works were not a good fit with the modern keyboard, and while he of course continued playing Beethoven, the composer with whom he was most closely identified, he played less and less Mozart over the course of time.

Even though the marathon cycles were mostly a thing of the past for Arrau (he still played occasional complete Beethoven sonata cycles), he did agree to a group of four all-Mozart recitals in 1955 at New York's Town Hall, a series which was to encompass all of the sonatas and fantasies along with nine other works, many of which were obscure. The twenty years that had elapsed since playing many of these pieces required intense work for Arrau, who first dropped some of the pieces from the planned programs, which were still to run three hours each, and then ultimately cancelled the series because of memory problems. He did play an all-Mozart recital in Salzburg in 1956, which encompassed K 475, 457, 310, 576 and 332 (most of which is available on Fantasie Kv 475 & Sonate Kv 457 & Sonate), but then only programmed occasional sonatas after that. Then, in March 1964, Arrau played an all-Mozart recital at New York's Lincoln Center featuring a program identical to the one offered at the Tanglewood Festival. There would be very little Mozart programmed after these recitals.

Arrau wrote the program notes for the Lincoln Center recital, including a brief essay titled "Understanding Mozart in the Twentieth Century," and his comments provide insight into his own approach to Mozart. "In the minds of nearly everyone today," he wrote, "Mozart's greatness is associated solely with classical perfection, and perfection of that order, as we have all come to think, cannot be quite human. And that of course is the source of most of the trouble when it comes to the performance of his music, from a piano sonata to the mounting of the great operas. It is incredible that even after more than one hundred and fifty years of research, of accumulated knowledge… there are still so many who persist in viewing Mozart as essentially gay, light and charming. And how many the performers who still take the bland view even with the dramatic and tragic staring out at them from the printed page, or worse, those who dig into him, even into his glaringly open wounds, with the precision and brutality of a mechanical drill. I have always felt, as if by some great and horrible cosmic joke, that everything Mozart hated in the performers of his day, (mechanicus he called them) has been visited back on him in the playing of his own music, with the exception of possibly a handful of perceptive artists in any given period since."

While the modern approach to Mozart reflects Arrau's insightful comments of fifty years ago, listeners at the time had been conditioned by years of critical praise heaped on Gieseking and others, who Arrau must have been referring to but would never have named. Arrau's comments may also have suggested that his audience prepare for an emphasis on the tragic element in Mozart, but nothing could have been further from truth. As it turns out, Arrau's Mozart is multidimensional; and the Tanglewood Festival recital, which followed two months after Lincoln Center, is a triumph in every respect. Arrau's playing is energetic, direct, substantial and masculine, and is also successful in projecting Mozart's operatic sound. There are no ultra-rhetorical statements, no lingering, nor is anything rushed. Interestingly, as familiar as I am with his playing (I've been listening to Arrau for over forty years), I'm certain I would have failed a blindfold test had I listened to these recordings without knowing who the pianist was. While Arrau plays effortlessly, the results are dazzling. His student Philip Lorenz's description of Arrau's preparations for the cancelled Mozart series of ten years before provide some insight into how he might have appeared at the keyboard at Tanglewood: "You wouldn't have thought [Arrau's] fingers could work so actively. It was a kind of playing I had never seen him do before, with the fingers pulled far back before striking. And he used a kind of flying staccato that was simply dazzling - he would throw his arms and hands at the keys, as if he were shaking water from his fingertips. The ornaments, too, were unbelievable - so fast and at the same time, so correct." The results, again, are compelling.

Arrau perceptively summed up Mozart this way: "To me, Mozart's greatness stems precisely from the fact that he was so utterly human, in the sense of being complete as a human. He was all of a piece as if divinely endowed. In him there waged no conflicts or struggle for expression. With him, expression was the outcome of his whole being. He was at one with heaven and earth, and that unity, coupled with genius, makes for the uniqueness of Mozart. Beethoven is felt to be 'more human' (as one hears expressed even in the most informed circles to this day) because in him the human struggle is so plainly etched into his musical fabric. But the human condition is even more poignant in Mozart precisely because suffering and tragedy are made to walk hand in hand as it were with the conventional expression of his time - rococo convention."

"If it were not for the fact that Mozart fulfilled himself so completely as a creator, one might also say that he is the most tragic of composers, because with him, tragedy was a part of the reality of his being and of his acceptance of life and therefore of death. In Mozart there s no solution to tragedy, unlike Beethoven, who always transcends his struggles through victory and affirmation. In a work like the great Fantasie and Sonata. K.475, 457. described by scholars as 'Beethovenian before Beethoven,' there is no victory in sight, only sadness and desolation at the end as well as the beginning."

Highly recommended.
Mozart - Claudio Arrau at Tanglewood 1964 (2013) {2CD Music & Arts CD-1274}


Musicians

Claudio Arrau - piano (Baldwin piano)

Works on This Recording
1.
Sonata for Piano no 8 in A minor, K 310 (300d) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1778; Paris, France
2.
Sonata for Piano no 5 in G major, K 283 (189h) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
3.
Sonata for Piano no 18 in D major, K 576 "Hunt" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1789; Vienna, Austria
4.
Sonata for Piano no 17 in B flat major, K 570 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1789; Vienna, Austria
5.
Sonata for Piano no 14 in C minor, K 457 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1784; Vienna, Austria
6.
Fantasy for Piano in C minor, K 475 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Claudio Arrau (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1785; Vienna, Austria

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