Im Klaviergeiste Mozarts with Alexandra Dovgan & Robin Ticciati

The younger Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan is simply 18, but her strategy to Mozart proved to be surprisingly mature and poised. As may be anticipated, Ticciati and the orchestra introduced a severe sense of drama and depth to the brooding orchestral introduction. Against this, Dovgan’s first entry was characterised by simplicity and readability, and all through the concerto she prevented massive Romantic gestures. For all of the orchestral sturm und drang, notably within the improvement part, she projected cool poise and magnificence. This sense of magnificence continued with the gradual motion. At first Dovgan’s strategy was very classical, however because the motion developed we had some severe enjoyable too. There was a vivid directness to the finale, the vivacity of Dovgan’s enjoying matched by the orchestra. On stage, Dovgan minimize a poised and considerably reticent determine, this picture fairly belied by her means to pedal in killer heels.

After the interval, she returned with Bach’s Toccata in E minor. The opening part was vibrant and powerful, there was little sense of interval model right here. A neat and crisp fugal part revealed an inside energy and drama to Dovgan’s enjoying, but the music may very well be concentrated and fairly romantic too. A vividly free rhapsodic part led to a closing fugue which was quick with crisp finger work, dazzling and interesting to a vibrant climax. I’d not need Bach performed like this each time, however as a approach of participating an viewers in a big live performance corridor with a giant trendy instrument, Dovgan confirmed that she had each model and functionality.

She appeared maybe on extra acquainted floor with Chopin’s third piano sonata, although I felt that she fairly targeting the fantastic thing about the second fairly than the underlying construction. There was a lot to understand in her efficiency, and we must always keep in mind that she is simply 18, with moments of sheer technical brilliance, nevertheless it was potential, at occasions, to neglect that we had been listening to a sonata. The primary motion started briskly, with pressing, crisp rhythms. However then the pellucid right-hand melody introduced out a way of distinction, and all through she highlighted the distinction between energy and drama, and delicate fluidity. The second motion was gentle and delicate but quick and livid. The gradual motion started with a dramatic gesture, resulting in a combination of quiet depth and pellucid melody. The darkly managed opening to the finale introduced a suggestion of darkish forces beneath the music, but the vivid passage work overflowed this and carried us to an pressing conclusion.

We had an encore, a Chopin waltz and right here Dovgan appeared really in her component.