Here's a recording I'd advise to listen to in headphones, since there are fine tonal qualities and details in the playing which are marvelous - and which characterize the master - but which you won't appreciate through the speakers of a computer, tablet, or TV.
One shouldn't, since Anderszewski reads the poetry so well, but playing like this almost invites a discussion about pure piano playing. The finely spun tone, and the adamantine touch and clarity he brings even at a triple pianissimo, when he so wishes... All this a parenthesis. But exquisite doesn't begin to describe that parenthesis.
Comparing the heights I dare say in fact that Anderszewski is as good as he's ever been in 2024, not only in how he strikes a key. I had the pleasure to hear him play a stunningly insightful set of Szymanowski Mazurkas myself this past winter, as well as two Bach Suites with Sarabandes such as no one has played them. So lustrous, and so beautifully ornate. As an artist he's the same Anderszewski of old, with the light melancholic veil and the love of half-tints, but neither the musician or the pianist knew how to reach these results when he first appeared.
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
00:00 - Three Hungarian Folk Songs from the Csik District, Sz.35a
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
Source: Audience Recording
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11 окт 2024
