Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Meet Boris Giltburg
This is Boris Giltburg, the 24-year-old Russian-Israeli pianist who is making his Southbank Centre recital debut tomorrow night. He is rather wonderful. Listen to this Bach - the fugue from the Chromatic Fantasy And...: deep, well-modulated touch, terrific concentration, intelligent shaping and voicing, and finely paced build of intensity from start to finish.
Since winning the Santander competition in 2002 he's been enjoying high-profile debuts with top orchestras around the usual circuit (eg, the world) and tomorrow he kicks off an ambitious programme at the QEH with nothing less than Beethoven Op.111. You don't tend to do that unless you are going places. The rest of the programme involves Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Schumann.
I will be interviewing him in a pre-concert event at the QEH at 6.15pm, so do come along and meet him. But if you can't, I suspect that there will be many more opportunities to enjoy his playing in future!
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Oh, this is very fine. And I say this as a member of the Dead Pianists Society. (Perhaps I might be called a Founding Member, Jessica? Perhaps the Founder and President might want to make me a vice-president, Jessica?) Yes, it is all you promised it would be be, and so I went to Youtube to see what else there may be, and listened to him in Rachmaninov's arrangement of Kreisler's Liebesleid, from pole to pole, as it were, and as a confection that was perfection. Also some fine Schubert and a snippet from a performance of the Beethoven third concerto, the latter a little less happy in my view, but a snippet is a snippet so I put it aside. A 24 year-old kicking off a recital with Beethoven Op.111 might be sheer hubris, there's no lack of that these days, but in this case I am sure not.
Thanks, Philip - yes, of course you must be a vice-president of the DPS (the president has given me an OK of the ginger purr variety)! Today I enjoyed posting a video, for once, of someone who is very much alive.
Thank you, Jessica! Thank you, Solti! My life is now complete. Sentences beginning, "I remember the day Solti appointed me..." shouldn't be too difficult to work into dinner party conversation, with just a little strategic mumbling.
Wonderful playing! An almost perfect balance between the hands and remarkable control of the sostenuto pedal. Wish I could have been at the QEH. Thanks for posting the clip.
This is a wonderful interpretation, for sure.
Brendan: Where is he using the sostenuto pedal? (I believe you are refering to the middle pedal).
I really can't tell where he uses it.
This is a great pianist of our time...Thank you, Jessica!
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