Event
Adelaide Hills
Alexander Gavrylyuk | UKARIA Cultural Centre
Adelaide Hills
From $40.00
Event
'Gavrylyuk is an artist as well as a pianist, and that's rare.' – Graham Strahle, InReview
Ukrainian-Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk returns with a characterful and dramatic program that showcases his 'revelatory' and 'electrifying' artistry. Each half opens with a distinctive evocation of childhood: Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) offers an adult's perspective, in a series of reminiscences of childhood experience. By contrast, Tchaikovsky's Children's Album – which begins the second half – is a twenty-four-part cycle written specifically for children.
Gavrylyuk has chosen to close the first half of his recital with music by two giants of nineteenth century piano-writing and playing. Chopin's beloved Fantaisie in F minor swirls in temperamental, fancy-free eddies; a character piece from Liszt's Venezia e Napoli evokes with flair the sights and sounds of Venetian and Neapolitan streets in 1859.
The program's final work turns firmly away from childhood, daydreaming and holiday snapshots. Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 in B flat, the second of a trio of 'war sonatas', was composed in 1942 during a period of intense pressure and difficulty for the composer. The sonata's three movements chart isolation, suspense, terror, desolation, and mourning, before ending in a fury with a movement marked Precipitato.
Ukrainian-Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk returns with a characterful and dramatic program that showcases his 'revelatory' and 'electrifying' artistry. Each half opens with a distinctive evocation of childhood: Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) offers an adult's perspective, in a series of reminiscences of childhood experience. By contrast, Tchaikovsky's Children's Album – which begins the second half – is a twenty-four-part cycle written specifically for children.
Gavrylyuk has chosen to close the first half of his recital with music by two giants of nineteenth century piano-writing and playing. Chopin's beloved Fantaisie in F minor swirls in temperamental, fancy-free eddies; a character piece from Liszt's Venezia e Napoli evokes with flair the sights and sounds of Venetian and Neapolitan streets in 1859.
The program's final work turns firmly away from childhood, daydreaming and holiday snapshots. Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 in B flat, the second of a trio of 'war sonatas', was composed in 1942 during a period of intense pressure and difficulty for the composer. The sonata's three movements chart isolation, suspense, terror, desolation, and mourning, before ending in a fury with a movement marked Precipitato.
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