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Piano Board => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: alessandro on May 11, 2016, 07:19:41 PM
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Hello everybody !
It is probably a cliché to say that "the quality of the participants of this year's contest is exceptionally fantastic" ! But frankly, there are lots of wonderful pianists coming towards us, wow ! Such a joy to hear that.
Here is just one example (starts around minute 9:00)
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_queen-elisabeth-2016-piano-lukas-vondra-ek-demi-finale-recital?id=2108744
The Brahms Sonate fa minor opus 5, by the Russian terribly onychophagiac Lukas Vondracek. I do not find very suitable metaphors (wizardry, a gap in the earth with fire and heat down below coming towards me and there a black hole and I can't find an adjective right now for the kind of delicacy and tenderness in this performance...)
This is a marvellous performance, isn't it (or am I exaggerating in some way or another ?)
Very kind greetings to you all.
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I saw and heard Vondracek when he won the UNISA competition in 2012.
I was really impressed by his playing.The 2 things I can still remember clearly is his Haydn which was unfaultable to me and Martinu 3 Czech dances.
He is doing some recitals in my country later this year I think and I will do what I can to attend them. He is quirky at the piano, but his playing is of the highest quality.
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So now that he's won.
What were your views on his Rachmaninov?
I found it quite impressive and very enjoyable.
Some very odd lines came out that I am not used to, but I thought it was a great performance. He has such a strong technique to back it up and energy all the way through.
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So now that he's won.
What were your views on his Rachmaninov?
I found it quite impressive and very enjoyable.
Some very odd lines came out that I am not used to, but I thought it was a great performance. He has such a strong technique to back it up and energy all the way through.
Absolutely. I'm in awe. What a pianist. It rained journalistic metaphors : "dangerous territories, a vertiginous mountainpath, rhythmcliffs, thrillervolcanos, detailjungles, lawines of chords"...
It would have surprised me if there would have been a more exceptional talent. He was out of league. What an artist. I do not come across artists like him very often.
You know, I have to admit that I have a penchant for sculptors of sound, the moulders of sound, you know what I mean ? Evgeni Bozhanov, Sviatoslav Richter, the distillation in concentration and total passion. It is music, but I love it when it's even more not "just" music or "only" music. And with these guys (I also liked Yoonji Kim by the way, it's not just a male type of thing !) you feel that they are absolutely and totally involved in what they are doing when they are doing it, you know. I know they are playing the piano and at the same time I'm hearing well... things ! Different things. Ofcourse, they are often taking some risks, and they lose sometimes a little bit here and a little bit there, but you feel, well, what can you call it, alive, life ! Irrational, I don't find words for it. I'm in awe. What a life ! Indeed, this is a truly un-for-gettable Rach 3. There were things to be heard in this music that I never heard in any performance before. Call me naïve or idolatric, it is a milestone in Rach 3. Beau-ti-ful !
A must hear... (click on "video bekijken" starting at approximately 17:00)
https://www.imkeb.be/4DCGI/cgi?lg=nl&pag=1645&tab=146
Very kind greetings !