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When Joyce Hatto died last June at the age of 77, the classical music world mourned the loss, it thought, of one of its most talented, and reclusive, pianists. Obituaries reported that the musician retreated from concert recitals after being diagnosed with cancer in the early 1970s but, over the next 30 years, Hatto recorded more than 100 CDs of virtuoso performances in a private studio near her home in Royston, England. The recordings, published by her husband William Barrington-Coupe's small Concert Artist label, wowed critics, one of whom called Hatto in 2005 the "greatest living pianist that...
...Barrington-Coupe has flatly denied plagiarism accusations, telling the Daily Telegraph newspaper that his wife "was the the sole pianist on those recordings." Inverne says the disputed recordings are "great piano playing," but, he adds, they are "just not Hatto...
...musical festivals and even snagging first place in a few international competitions. Now, at 17, her résumé of prizes has grown lengthy. Nadzhafova’s chaperone, Svetlana Gorzhevskaya, the program director for arts and culture for the foundation, says that competitions are essential for young pianists. “It’s one of the major ways to expose yourself,” she says. Nadzhafova is now applying to American conservatories, including the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where she hopes to study with Garry Grafman. She could apply to the Moscow Conservatory, where...
...first black artist with his own network TV show, Cole was a jazz pianist whose voice was too lyrical and intimate to be shut up. He put that silky, highly palatized tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
...know people (I'm married to one) who cherish Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas as the finest holiday jazz album. But I'll take this one, from Montreal's gift to coolness. In 1993, the pianist suffered a stroke that severely restricted his left side. But, as this buoyant set shows, he could still outplay the competition with one hand tied behind his back. "Christmas Waltz" is the one you'll be hitting the replay button...