Ivo Pogorelić News
Croatian pianist
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- Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- pianist, academic musician
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2023-06-23 14:57:00
[…] formal outline but also the details that contributed to that outline. He also offered a far more varied palette, and much greater variegation of touch and tone. At last, I felt, here was musical development as I (Teutonically?) understood it. Ultimately, this turned out to be a Berlioz-like Romanticism, albeit for the piano, which worked very well. As for the first half, I can well imagine Debargue’s approach appealing more to devotees of, say, Ivo Pogorelich and Khatia Buniatisvili than it did to me, though this seemed far less an ‘act’ than that of either. Even when I did not like and/or understand what I heard, it made me think—and there are worse things that. The encore, Miłosz Magin’s Nostalgie du pays, proved simple yet piquant, a loving contrast to what had gone before.
2022-05-19 05:07:00
Opalescent (CD review)
[…] task that was as tiresome as it was necessary.” [Denk was about 14 at the time.]“This is efficient: if we don’t lose the line, we don’t need to return to it. But the melody becomes pointless, all of it hearing gone. Melody, among its many virtues, affirms the necessity of the unnecessary.” {From a discussion of the Brahms Piano Trio No. 1.]“But over the years I’d heard certain recordings [of Bach] – a super-fast Ivo Pogorelich version of the English Suite in A Minor, which claimed to be all about motoric movement, and of course – who could avoid or resist the juggernaut? – Glenn Gould’s two ‘Goldbergs.’ I thought the second Gould recording was silly, because of how serious it tried to be. But the first – such lightness, crispness, a vision of clarity. Finger-work made sublime. The way you were captured in the wistful theme – then out […]
2022-04-25 21:27:20
SCRUTINY | Ivo Pogorelich Offers A Recital To Remember
More than 40 years after his Toronto debut, Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich remains one of a kind.
2022-02-14 19:52:37
Review: Ivo Pogorelich Plays Chopin (2022)
Ivo Pogorelich releases his first Chopin album in over two decades with works he's never recorded before, including the Fantaisie and B minor Sonata. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
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