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Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings
Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 7EG, England
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Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 7EG, England
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1928 - 2006
Serge Krish, who had been a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, was one of
Joyce Hatto’s early teachers. Serge Krish, who was present at Busoni’s great
Liszt series in the German capital, generously imparted his knowledge and
enthusiasm for Bach, Beethoven and Liszt and inspired in his young pupil a
lifelong interest in Nineteenth Century repertoire. As a student, Joyce Hatto,
studied composition with Mátyás Seiber and Paul Hindemith. She later had the
encouragement and guidance in the major romantic repertoire of Alfred Cortot,
the great French pianist, and subsequently worked with Nadia Boulanger. Finally,
she studied with the Polish teacher Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw and, in
London, with Ilona Kabos, the eminent Hungarian pianist and teacher.
Over the years she has
worked with many famous conductors and composers both at home and abroad, among
them, Victor de Sabata, Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Kletzki, Jean Martinon, Carl
Orff, Benjamin Britten, Vaughan Williams and Malcolm Arnold. A devoted champion
of British music, she helped the revival of interest in Arnold Bax with
recordings of the piano sonatas as well as reviving his Symphonic Variations for
piano and orchestra both in concerts and on record.
Joyce Hatto has played
throughout Europe, in a great number of leading music centres in other parts of
the world, as well as appearing in over a hundred international music festivals.
Her great interest in the 19th Century Romantics has lead her to revive and
explore many facets of the piano repertoire. She gained early recognition as an
exceptional Chopin player and her Chopin recitals in London and other leading
European centres have been to capacity audiences. Stefania Niekrasz, who
instituted the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and founded the Chopin
School of Music, has written, “Joyce Hatto has found the heart and the mind
of the composer”. She has visited and played in Poland many times and one of
her Warsaw Chopin programmes was given in a series of international recitals in
which the three other pianists appearing were Jacob Zak, Arthur Rubinstein and
Witold Malcuzynski.
Described
enthusiastically by the London Daily Telegraph as “The Indomitable
Champion of Liszt” she gave a series of ten Liszt recitals in the Wigmore
and Queen Elizabeth Halls. These recitals encompassed a vast quantity of Liszt’s
original output (including many first performances) but also revived long
neglected transcriptions and operatic paraphrases as well as the Beethoven
Symphony transcriptions. Burnett James, the critic and author, wrote
“probably not since Busoni has a pianist presented such a wide and rich
in depth repertoire”. Over the past few years she has made a large number of
recordings of the less frequently explored area of the repertoire now, however,
she has returned to the composers with whom she was associated at the beginning
of her career. She has recorded the complete sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven as
well as many major works of Bach. In addition, having completed her recordings
of the entire piano works of Chopin, Schumann Brahms and Rachmaninov,
has completed a number of Mozart
Concertos and Schubert Sonatas. Concert Artist has already released eighty
compact discs to acclaim by enthusiastic critics and lovers of fine piano
playing everywhere. Always known as a particularly fine interpreter of Chopin &
Liszt her recordings of the Russian repertoire have now been attracting
worldwide attention. Her tremendous performance of Tchaikovsky’s familiar First
Piano Concerto, together with the complete Rachmaninov Concertos, have won
golden accolades. Many critics have named her as one of the finest interpreters
of the Russian repertoire today and this is amply demonstrated in the latest
release of the Prokofiev 3rd Concerto coupled with the Tchaikovsky Piano
Concerto No.1 and the Prokofiev Toccata and Balakirev Islamey added as
interesting encores. Quite recently she has been revising and re-recording the
complete piano works of Sergei Prokofiev and these will be released very
shortly. She has also been preparing the complete Godowsky Studies on the
original Chopin Etudes and these will also be released in the coming months. The
first twelve volumes of the Chopin series are currently available as well as the
complete Concertos of Rachmaninov and Brahms.
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