Aleksandr Vustin<\/strong> \u2013 Lamento <\/em>(1974) Leif Ove Andsnes has been taking this programme round Europe: and from the Wigmore Hall, he goes to Bruxelles (November 23) and thence Bordeaux (November 25).<\/p>\n Andsnes is likely one of the most clever pianists on the circuit proper now. It was clear how a lot thought had gone into this: the primary half made excellent sense because it moved in direction of a commanding efficiency of Beethoven\u2019s Op.110. The tortured strains of the Jan\u00e1\u010dek, the purity of the Silvestrov and the dolorous Vustin every examined features of emotional depth and ache earlier than the solace of Beethoven\u2019s nice A-flat main Sonata.<\/p>\n The foundation of this primary half was what Andsnes himself has known as \u2018frighteningly relevant\u2019, with the Vustin and the Silvestrov appearing as prelude and postlude to Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s astonishing sonata, written in response to the loss of life of a Czech employee in 1905 by the hands of Austrian troops who had been attempting to quell an illustration calling for a Czech college in Brno. Andsnes hyperlinks that to occasions when he wrote his personal programme notice in late September 2022, when younger Iranian demonstrators had been being killed in Tehran, \u2018and brave Russians were out voicing their resistance to the devastating war that threatens their lives\u2019.<\/p>\n Born in 1943, Alexandr Vustin (typically rendered as Wustin, typically Voustine), was a pupil of Grigori Samuilovich Frid (1915-2012). His music has been championed by Gidon Kremer\u2019s Kremerata Baltica. He was clearly fascinated by sonority \u2013 strive his impressionistic Musique pour l\u2019ange <\/em>for saxophone, cello and vibraphone, for instance. One can hear that side additionally in Lamento, <\/em>with its ostinato left-hand and aching right-hand melodies. Even consonances appear inconsolable. Andsnes\u2019s efficiency was completely judged, together with a spectacularly even trill.<\/p>\n The Jan\u00e1\u010dek was elegiac and exquisite. Andsnes additionally understands the necessity for pulse on this music that may in any other case appear too diffuse. Worth noting, too, the standard of the instrument he was enjoying, a superbly ready Steinway, significantly in its higher registers. The second motion contained what can solely be known as a pianistic Urschrei<\/em>; The response was Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov\u2019s Bagatelle<\/em>, Op.1\/3. The piece has a chic purity but additionally a way of melancholy that appeared to lengthen the Jan\u00e1\u010dek whereas concurrently taking it heavenwards. The piece is successfully a four-minute sluggish waltz, out of which emerged Beethoven\u2019s chic penultimate sonata. It was the timeless features of this that lodged within the reminiscence: the rapt, hymnic opening, the chic evenness of the arpeggiations, the blissful Adagio ma non troppo<\/em> resulting in a fugue that reached organ-like grandeur.<\/p>\n How to comply with that first half? Well, Andsnes\u2019s resonance with Czech music (he had a Czech piano trainer in Norway) continued with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s 1889 set of 13 Poetic Tone Pictures<\/em>. Andsnes\u2019s new Sony recording of this can be a main achievement, convincing from first to final. Surprisingly, in an inversion of the anticipated, Andsnes was much less persuasive dwell, regardless of many moments of magic and a technical stage that was near-perfect. His contact in \u2018Toying\u2019 couldn’t be bettered. But maybe as a result of he has been touring this, the recording really sounds brisker. That is to not say there weren’t moments of supreme magnificence. Most spectacular was the penultimate piece, \u2018At a Hero\u2019s Grave\u2019, huge in scope and really a lot placing me in thoughts of Liszt\u2019s \u2018Vall\u00e9e d\u2019Obermann\u2019 from the Swiss 12 months of journey. But he might additionally convey a type of heady pleasure within the \u2019Peasant\u2019s Ballad\u2019 (No.5). We actually heard the excellence of the piano\u2019s uppermost reaches once more within the eighth piece (\u2019Goblin\u2019s Dance\u2019). The \u2019Bachanalia\u2019 (No.10) had character and virtuosity (though, once more, extra so in his recording). Fascinating, too, how the ultimate piece, \u2018On the Holy Mountain\u2019, appears to seek advice from Chopin\u2019s C sharp minor Scherzo in its alternation of sonorous chords and filigree. How becoming that the composer opts to shut the cycle in a meditative style \u2013 a cycle that, whereas containing some virtuosity, is as an alternative a superbly conceived complete that strikes by way of a multiplicity of moods in direction of this superb, glowing conclusion.<\/p>\n Leif Ove Andsnes did persuade us that we have to hear extra of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s solo piano music, actually. And do get hold of the recording \u2013 it is rather particular.<\/p>\n Colin Clarke<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] United Kingdom Various: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.11.2022. 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United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/span> Various:<\/span><\/strong> Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.11.2022. (CC)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/LO-Andsnes5732322-\u00a9-Helge-Hansen_Sony-Music-Entertainment-1-333x250.jpg\")
Jan\u00e1\u010dek<\/strong> \u2013 Piano Sonata I.X.1905<\/em>, \u2018From the Street\u2019 (1905\/6)
Silvestrov<\/strong> \u2013 Bagatelle<\/em>, Op.1\/3 (2003)
Beethoven<\/strong> \u2013 Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat main, Op.110 (1821\/22)
Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/strong> \u2013 Poetic Tone Pictures<\/em>, Op.85 (1889)<\/p>\n