Opening Jitters
The morning sessions of the first day are best described as jittery. The young pianists sounded tentative, tense, and a little mechanical. They focused mainly on not missing a single note to the detriment of artistic expression. Out of the eight performers, for now, I wrote down three names: Russian Miroslav Kultyshev, Spain's Marianna Pryevalskaya and Canadian Leonard Gilbert (in that order)...
Miroslav Kultyshev, photo: press materials
The morning sessions of the first day are best described as jittery
The young pianists sounded tentative, tense, and a little mechanical. They focused mainly on not missing a single note to the detriment of artistic expression.
Out of the eight performers, for now, I wrote down three names: Russian Miroslav Kultyshev, Spain's Marianna Pryevalskaya and Canadian Leonard Gilbert (in that order). Kultyshev shone with maturity and subtlety, especially in Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Pryevalskaya showed confidence and force, and Gilbert has narrative talent and understanding of the form's dramaturgy which he showed in the same ballade. As Nelson Freire said in his interview, "You have to measure the time between notes skilfully". Precisely…
The audience is an unfortunately vociferous performer, voting with coughs. I have a suggestion: let's cough between performers, not between pieces. Will you help?
Author: Tomasz Cyz ("Dwutygodnik"), October 2010.
The article comes from the "Chopin Express", gazette published for the
16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Gramophone.
Other articles of interest:
"No Fate is Sealed"
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