シューマンの交響的練習曲の彼のライブ録音を聞いて、彼の音の密度と美しさ、奥深い表現力に、私は涙ぐみました。それは、リスナーを最初から最後の音に至るまで、催眠術にかけるのです。 彼のスクリャービンの演奏は、最高の演奏と言うべきもので、彼の演奏の真実と偉大さに、私はどういうわけか、彼のスクリャービンとアラウのベートーヴェンを比較してしまいます。 YouTubeで、より多くの彼のスクリャービンの演奏を共有できる機会があればと思います。 SR
ヴィラはリストの作品のいくらかのアルバムを録音した。ひとつは1978年に"Grand Prix du Disque Liszt"を受賞した。彼はまたスクリャービンの多くの作品を録音した。伴奏者として、ソプラノのジェシー・ノーマンやヴィクトリア・デ・ロス・アンヘレス、チェリストのムスティスラフ・ロストロポーヴィチ、ヴァイオリニストのジョセフ・フックス、ユージン・フォドアと共演する。彼はブルックリンのバージミュージックで、しばしば室内楽の演奏を行った。
This particular rendition of the Scriabin Fourth Sonata indeed brings out some of the most outstanding qualities of JosephVilla's pianism, which is the reason why I thought to post it here on Youtube. I became acquainted with Villa's magnificent recordings of Scriabin a few years ago, and I was totally enraptured by the beauty of his tone, the 'romantic' conception of the sonority (in the true sense of the word), his tasteful and sensual 'rubato', and what impressed me even more was how his volcanic passion is always in tune with every culminating point of a piece.
His live recording of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes brought me to tears once, for the density and beaty of his tone, and for the profoundness of his expression, which hypnotizes the listener from the first to the last sound. His Scriabin interpretations are among the very best, and the truth and grandeur of his playing make me somehow compare his Scriabin to Arrau's Beethoven. Hope to have a chance to share more of his Scriabin playing on Youtube. SR
Short Biography (from an article in the NY Times):
JosephVilla was born in Garfield, N.J., on Aug. 9, 1948, and studied at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki. He later studied privately with Claudio Arrau and Olga Barabini, and he made his debut in a recital at Alice Tully Hall in 1972.
Mr. Villa recorded several albums of works by Liszt. One was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Liszt in 1978. He also made recordings of many works by Scriabin. As an accompanist, he gave performances with the sopranos Jessye Norman and Victoria de Los Angeles, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the violinists Joseph Fuchs and Eugene Fodor. And he was a frequent participant in chamber music performances at Bargemusic in Brooklyn.
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