My friends asked me if I wanted to go to a couple of piano recitals at the Victoria Concert Hall, I jumped at the chance.
Wow, I've not been to a piano recital in YEARS! I thought to myself.
My parents (actually it's my mum) has been bringing my brother and I to SSO concerts, piano recitals and other classical music performances for as long as I can remember. Reason being I was learning classical piano, and my mum wanted to soak me in the classical music environment.
However, after we have all grown up, we've only attended these once in a long while, and they're mainly the Christmas concerts.
The first one I've attended this year is on 25th June, performing pianist is Vladimir Feltsman, the pieces that he played are:
Johann Sebastian Bach's "Parita No.1 in B-flat major, BWV. 825"
Frederic Chopin's "Two Polonaises, Op. 26 (No.1 in C-sharp minor; No.2 in E-flat minor)", and "Ballade No.3 in A-flat major, Op.47."
Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Vladimir is a spirited pianist, with strong, masculine interpretation of the artists' works. Chopin's works showed strong, loud nationalistic flavours through and through.
His interpretation of Mussorgsky's works were AMAZING ... Mussorgsky composed based on the inspiration of his close friend's picture, whom has passed on prematurely, you can vividly imagine the 10 different Victor Hartmann's pictures coming to life.
The second pianist we had the pleasure of ogling at ... oops listening to is Yevgeny Sudbin. Watching him play was mesmerizing... was whispering to my friends how he seemed like Twilight's Edward Cullen at the piano... AAahhh... listening to him is like having a spa for the ear drums ... or sipping a nice dry, smooth white wine. His playing is very smooth, for certain pieces you would have thought the keys were gently caressed and stroked by his expert hands.
Yet, he could also deliver quick strong pieces. The whole musical journey has it's crescendo and descrendo moments ... lay me down gently, Yevgeny.
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