Word: larrocha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seiji Ozawa. The long season (June 27 through Sept. 15) is made up of orchestral and chamber concerts, a short visit by the New York City Ballet, Daniel Barenboim's English Chamber Orchestra, a jazz-folk program and a wide selection of guest artists, including Pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher, Alexis Weissenberg and others of that caliber...
...Barcelona one spring morning in 1928, Alicia de Larrocha's piano teacher played her a little piece by the Spanish pianist-composer Enrique Granados (1867-1916). As she remembers the occasion now, "there opened before me a new world of poetry and dreams. I had the sensation that this music formed part of myself, and now I would never be able to free myself from its influence...
Glowing Fabric. Alicia de Larrocha, now 44 and a superb concert pianist, never has freed herself from Granados' music. Instead, she has become its foremost interpreter, and last week, at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, she saluted the 100th anniversary of his birth with an all-Granados program...
...minute Goyescas, a work she seemed to have in her blood as well as her fingers. Formidably complex (some passages are scored on three staves instead of two), it unfolds in broad, rolling phrases that are punctuated by guitar rhythms and embroidered with intricate arabesques. De Larrocha not only mastered its difficulties, but through artful shadings of rhythm and dynamics she brought it to pulsing life...
Since typecasting can be as stultifying for musicians as for actors, De Larrocha is beginning to grow uneasy about her near-total identification with Granados and Spanish musical nationalism. When she started playing at the age of two, "first it was Bach and Mozart and the wide range of the European repertory-the necessary base." Now she would like to touch that base more often in her performances, thereby securing her already considerable claim to international stature...