Musicians mourn the death of the most famous pianist’s
Madrid, 26 sep (EFE) .- The world of music today deplored the death of Alicia de Larrocha, to which his colleagues did not hesitate to qualify as the best pianist in the history of Spain, an interpreter who represented “all values of great art “and was a reference, among other things, for his honesty and dedication.
“Alicia has always been a reference for me since I started my studies looked, listened, fascinated by his master, for his playing,” said told EFE today Rosa Torres Pardo, one of the most famous Spanish pianists .
Rosa Torres Pardo for today is “a very sad day” because it is the first without Alicia de Larrocha, died last night in Barcelona at age 86.
“She has been an important example for all my generation, we have all followed suit,” he stressed, pointing to de Larrocha was the Spanish pianist “most recognized” and a performer who has led the worldwide Spanish repertoire.
And especially one of his masterpieces, the suite “Iberia” Albéniz composed “to be played by men, because precise control” which, however, took into Alicia de Larrocha at “its highest representative” because she “has given known throughout the world. ”
For Javier Perianes, one of the most outstanding young pianists Spanish, De Larrocha “has been and will be a reference not only for Spanish pianists, for any musician with sensibility, not just classic because it represented the full value of the great art.
“He walked with the Spanish music of the biggest baton because it was the largest. His death is a loss for the music outstanding, but we still have his memories, his recordings,” says this artist who received a two-hour class Alicia de Larrocha he was left taped “humility and honesty really great” and that, as a spectator of his concerts, can not forget “magic moments” that underpin “the titanic scale of this artist.
One of his disciples, Luis Hernando Perez, who studied “six or seven years” at the Academy of Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona, it is also willing to say that she has been “the greatest pianist of Spanish history and one of the main promoters of Spanish music in the world.
In his classes “taught me about the whole balance, serenity, temper when playing and always advised me to go little by little,” explained the pianist who in 2007 published a recording of the “Iberia” sponsored by whom was his interpreter par excellence.
“I recorded it, brought it home and two days later called me and said he had heard three times and had been delighted,” recalls pianist proud that ensures that this work, along with compositions by Granados, was ” the bible of the artist.
“As a perfectionist he wanted eternal to live another hundred years” but in reality, “has left very little to do,” especially by the Spanish music that has “been around the world” at their concerts and their “more than forty disks. ”
“Unfortunately in the country have made little homage,” he lamented.
Cristobal Halffter or composers as Tomás Marco have also expressed grief over the death of the pianist.
Halffter, “close friend” of “the great lady of the piano,” he told EFE that all professionals “will forever in the memory” because he was an artist “exceptional” Marco Thomas asserted that “no one has represented as the ideals of the Spanish music “and was an” exceptional pianist “whose talent is recorded in” recordings which are still canon, especially the suite Iberia, and has left a legacy. EFE
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