Now you can watch the Chopin winner vs the outlier
NewsThis was the midweek concert in Katowice where winner Bruce Liu faced a challenge from unplaced Eva Gevorgyan.
Eva’s first half, Bruce second.
You won’t regret it.
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They are both beautiful people, sharing their own imagination and feeling for the music they play. This can never be diminished or taken down for personal reasons or for comparison. Not only for these two young and still experimenting musicians, but for many, is a mindset to try and say something different to set themselves apart. In the process, being different may subconsciously affect altering the pulse. Heartbeats do what they must do, beating steadily in healthy bodies. Pulse in music is akin to the heartbeats, and need to breathe steadily, mostly for the benefit of the listener to breathe with the performer. Changing the heartbeat in the music (and rubato can still happen within the steady heartbeat), causes an irregularity in the natural breathing of the music. Another element that has seeped into many keyboardists of our time, is a detached finger legato, and that comes through with the pedal as well. I believe this has permeated our society due to the expansion of technology, the detached touch on laptops, phones, PC keyboards and the like. One cannot truly sustain a pure legato melodic line on our gadgets, and we must make certain that in piano playing, the spaces between our fingers are closed to detached legato. Playing certain pianos with pretty tones can soften that detachment, yet, with deeper touch pianos and deeper sonorities, one cannot escape the necessity to play with the purest legato imaginable. These are indeed wonderful young artists, with much to say, and I hope they will continue to share their gifts through music to the world.
Why must it be cast as yet another competition?
Eva should have been placed in the Prizes! Also Aimi should have been given the Preludes prize.
Music isn’t sport, Norman. Please stop this inane audience-baiting.
Amen!
You are right ALLEN!!! Enough is enough!
To carry on, critics, pianists and audiences are responsible for the “mess” that is today’s classical music scene. It will never be more than the latest sensation until it’s treated with integrity.
“Critics are leeches and whores.”
—-Adolph Herseth
I shudder to think how many potential great musicians may have been lost simply down to the fact they had an off day when their turn came to perform in a competition, or they just can’t produce their best in those unique circumstances. They are a horrendous way of choosing who gets a career and who doesn’t
Agreed 100%
Julian, there are so many days and times when we feel this way, or that way, some performances have highs and lows, but they’re always alittle different for whatever reason. Juries come to the table with their own imagined sonic landscape for every piece of music. The venue, the piano, the repertoire, our heartbeat, emotions, are all contributing factors to every time we make music. The career is a much bigger ship than the one stateroom. The competition should not be the deciding factor to determine the course of any one career. That becomes a form of idol worship. No competition can sustain a career. It is a brick on the yellow brick road, win or not. It is very easy to fall into gloom with loss in competition. We’ve all been there to some degree. But the big picture should always be the guiding light. And, in four or five years, the next one comes around.