Mozart<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, Okay.310 The participating Georgian pianist Luka Okros \u2013 born in Tbilisi, based mostly in London \u2013 introduced three youthful masterpieces to Southampton\u2019s Turner Sims, every of them written within the composer\u2019s twenties (Okros himself is barely out of them).<\/p>\n The first, Mozart\u2019s A minor Sonata Okay.310, written shortly after the loss of life of his mom, is probably essentially the most astonishing of the three. Sitting between two completely innocuous sonatas (Okay.309 and Okay.311), it’s a work, within the phrases of Nicholas Kenyon, \u2018for which nothing prepares us.\u2019 For Charles Rosen, extra prosaically, it’s \u2018the first of Mozart\u2019s essays within the tragic vein.\u2019 We don’t typically go to Mozart\u2019s piano sonatas for his profoundest utterances, and even to hint the event of his genius; but right here we’re confounded. Or, to place it one other method, it’s the job of the pianist to confound us.<\/p>\n Okros was equal to the duty. The first motion has passages of nice brilliance, however the music can’t escape the repeated minor-key falling determine \u2013 like a dejected sigh \u2013 with which it opens. Okros\u2019s taking part in made this completely clear. He phrased the light opening of the Andante cantabile<\/em> with nice tenderness; the turbulence that regularly (and disturbingly) invades the music acquired virtually Beethovenian power, making the opening a fragile reminiscence. Okros\u2019s Presto <\/em>finale was unrelentingly quick, giving the music a febrile, hunted high quality, till the ultimate abrupt descending chords slammed the sonata shut.<\/p>\n If there was a reservation, it was about scale and lightness of contact. It is troublesome to know whether or not this was to do with the pianist, the piano itself, or the acoustic of a sparsely populated corridor. It can be attention-grabbing to listen to the sonata on the kind of early piano Mozart was used to \u2013 Kenyon writes of Mozart\u2019s enthusiasm on the time of its composition for the pianos of Andreas Stein, which had been famend particularly for his or her lightness of contact. There may very well be no such quibbles about Beethoven\u2019s Pathetique <\/em>\u2013 the earliest of his sonatas to amass a nickname \u2013 which Okros dispatched with nice dexterity and an unfailing sense of drama. His taking part in of the well-known gradual motion \u2013 one other Andante cantabile<\/em> \u2013 was considerate and unexaggerated.<\/p>\n On the face of it, Schumann\u2019s magnificent Fantasie in C<\/em> appears to share the type of the 2 previous works \u2013 that of a three-movement sonata: however it’s nothing of the sort. Schumann, full-blooded Romantic that he was, invented his personal varieties for expressing his emotions and fantasies, and right here he created a heroically prolonged construction into which to pour his pent-up ardour for Clara Wieck, forbidden by her father to marry him. Its opening is just like the breaking of a dam: the pianist has to throw warning to the winds, and Okros did simply that. He conveyed the music\u2019s ebb and stream, its quiet and tender episodes and its nice surges of emotion, inside a powerfully maintained onward momentum; we had been by no means for a second becalmed. At its greatest, as right here, Okros\u2019s taking part in has appreciable panache. Ironically, maybe, he reserved his most delicate taking part in for his encores, Chopin\u2019s Nocturne in C sharp minor and Schumann\u2019s Der Dichter spricht<\/em> \u2013 The Poet Speaks \u2013 the hushed, magical chords that lull his Kinderszenen <\/em>to silence and to sleep.<\/p>\n In May, Paul Lewis and Angela Hewitt shall be giving recitals on the Turner Sims: likely each will play to packed homes, and rightly so. It was a disgrace that the warmly appreciative viewers for Okros was not bigger. He already has eight first prizes beneath his belt in worldwide piano competitions: I for one shall be looking for his identify, and wishing him a vibrant future.<\/p>\n Chris Kettle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] United Kingdom Mozart, Beethoven, R. Schumann: Luka Okros (piano). Turner Sims, Southampton, 2.2.2023. 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United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/span> Mozart, Beethoven, R. Schumann: <\/span><\/strong>Luka Okros (piano). Turner Sims, Southampton, 2.2.2023. (CK)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LOK-e1675468638615-349x250.jpg\")
Beethoven\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13\u00a0Path\u00e9tique<\/em>
R. Schumann \u2013 <\/strong>Fantasie<\/em> in C main<\/em>, Op.17<\/p>\n