Despite a slight awkwardness in stage deportment, everything he did suggested a close-to-formed artist rather than former child prodigy. Six years younger was the Briton Benjamin Grosvenor, cradle-snatched for his Singapore début on Friday evening. The full-house audience at the first evening was left wondering whether they had just witnessed the heir-apparent to legends like Horowitz or Argerich. In the set of short pieces by Scriabin, her ability to negotiate between smouldering calm and outright violence within the space of seconds was uncanny and breathtaking. Whether barnstorming Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata, teasing out singing lines in three Schubert-Liszt song transcriptions, or pummeling the life out of the Steinway grand in Prokofiev’s incendiary Sixth Sonata, every quantum was in service of the music. Antithesis to the swaying and swooning Lang Lang, her ramrod straight posture and complete lack of affectation or extraneous effects rendered the range of sounds she produced all the more incredulous. At 23, her waif-like physical stature and guileless demeanor belied a thoughtful and often profound interpreter with devastating technical facility. Whatever one has heard of China’s Yuja Wang in print, gossip or youtube, it is all true.
In a line-up with shades of the 2001 edition (21 st Century Pianists), the young and gifted illuminated a bright and promising future for the art of piano performance. However under the watch of new Artistic Director Lionel Choi, the sub-plot of showcasing the instrument’s newest glittering names took a firm hold. Telemann: Concerto TWV 51:D7 in D major for trumpet, strings & b.c.The music of Frédéric Chopin was purportedly the uniting theme of this year’s PianoFest. Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Strings in D major, Z850 Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695: Funeral Sentences Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351 Opus Klassik Awards 2020 Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Yearīach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Sinfonia 'Hirtenmusik'īach, J S: Jauchzet frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage (from Christmas Oratorio, BWV248)īach, J S: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben') When it comes together it is utterly thrilling.” “There is such value in searching out the sound that they would have heard themselves, with the intention of authenticity. “These baroque composers knew the instrument they were writing for,” says Balsom. Joining Handel's exuberant Music for the Royal Fireworks are works by two other German-born composers - JS Bach and Telemann - and by the London-born Henry Purcell. With an album of celebration - both joyful and solemn - trumpeter Alison Balsom again declares her love for the baroque era, which she calls “the golden age of the trumpet”. For Oboe D'amore, Violin, Strings And Continuo) Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin From 'Mavra'ĥ. For Violin And Piano By Fritz Kreisler)Ĥ. For Violin, Piano And String Orchestra)ġ5. By Fritz Kreisler From Piano Concerto No. Lento, Ma Non Troppo - Poco Piu Mosso - Tempo Iħ. Hungarian Dance No.5 In G Minor, Woo 1 No.5 (Arr. 9 'From the New World'ġ Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo)ġ2 Puccini - Madama Butterfly (Vogliatemi Bene)Ħ.
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