The last summer night, because August 31, from the Enescu Festival's calendar brought on the stage of the Palace Hall, on the threshold of the evening, on the vogue pianist Seong-Jin Cho next to the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia National Academy, directed by Daniel Harding, what a miraculous event, and, at the middle of the Romanian Athens. Grigorian and Pianist Lukas Geniušas, a pre -clutch through Russian songs and stories, but also Enesciene, you will see.
Photo: Andrada Pavel / George Enescu Festival
What do you want more than that?
(A Aphogato with ice cream Fior di lattebetween concerts, in Bucharest that bursts nocturnal, to proclaim your musical meetings and to timed an idea on Santa Ene).
Because things are like this: at the weekend, the Enescu Festival proposes marathon programs-and it depends on each meloman if it wants to run the whole race (it's difficult!) Or it only makes a semi-marathon or even the 10 km race.
The program of the day of August 31, for example: at 11:00, Symphonieta Orchestra, at the Odeon Theater, in the series Concerts for families and children; Also at 11:00, at the Auditorium Hall of the National Museum of Art of Romania, a cello program, Valentin Răduțiu, and Pian, Per Rundberg, in the series Enescu 70 (70 years after passing into the non -being).
At 13:00, at the Radio Hall, Symphony Warsovia, in the series birthdays; At 16:30, at the Romanian Athenaeum, the room orchestra in Lausanne, with Renaud Capuçon as a violinist and conductor, in the series much tasted by the public Concerts from Ateneu.
Enescu on the meaning of the children, at the Odeon Theater. Photo: Maria Gîrdac / George Enescu Festival
The room orchestra in Lausanne, at the Romanian Athenaeum. Photo: Anca Arambaşa / George Enescu Festival
In the evening, at the Palace Hall, at 7:30 pm, as I told you, a feast: the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia National Academy, with the Korean pianist Seong-Jin, who sings Concert no. 1 in the major de Beethoven, replacing Martha Argerich, and at the Athenaeus a concert at midnight big nights: Asmik Grigorian and Lukas Geniušas.
Power, choose if you can!
And the above-mentioned concerts chose the evening concerts-that he could, he evaluated his energy level-but he energetically congratulates those who decided to spend the whole Sunday in the festival, they will certainly not be regretted. As I do not regret the choice – on the contrary.
Seong-Jin Cho in the Enescu Festival. Photo: Cristina Tanase / George Enescu Festival
The Korean pianist is one of the revelations of the moment, winner of Chopin International Competition (2015), 3rd place at the International Tchaikovski (2011) contest, with the full agenda for the next three years – so, happy to be convinced to enter, unexpectedly, in this year's program of the Enescu Festival.
Perhaps it will be mattered in a significant proportion that the festival takes place in the country of Radu Lupu, one of the pianists idolized by Korean, so that Seong-Jin Cho had, at one point in his musical history, as Screensaver on the phone Radu Lupu.
(It is a wonderful interview here that reconstructs in detail, in layers and sheets, the meeting of Seong-Jin Cho with Radu Lupu, the visits to Lausanne, the advice of the master and wife, who received him as a family, the calm that brought Radu Lupu's phone during the Chopin contest, when I see ” Lupu, the one whom the Korean pianist described as a possessor of the “supreme musicality”).
So it is not a coincidence that his sound brings so much with the magical, soft interpretations of Radu Lupu.
This is how I would describe Beethovenul no. 1 play by Seong-Jin Cho in Bucharest, with the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome: velvet.
A luminous steam, a nostalgia-and a serious pianist, in a suit, with hands floating above the flaps in the break times, with unvervreous fingers of Agile, who have learned their concert to the last note and know the way to the heart of the listeners.
A magic, a playful and fine sound, as if you passed your hand over a piece of velvet and scrape your fingers.
Photo: Petrică Tanase / George Enescu Festival
And a concert of Beethoven who, yes, sounds like Mozart, because it is, assimilating the influences of Mozart and Haydn, soaked in finesse and musicality.
At bis, Chopin-and a renowned defended: Seong-Jin Cho is the absolute winner of the Chopin contest in 2015, and another bis where seriousness melts, you see, it is just a cloak: Sonata of the Moonof Beethoven, with her calm and warm, mysterious air, becomes playful, joking, because it turns into Happy Birthday to Youu.
Cheerful rumor in the room, pianist put on the shots, but not for no reason: conductor Daniel Harding turns 50, and this was Seong-Jin's musical gift for him.
Photo: Petrică Tanase / George Enescu Festival
We, the ones in the room, have only to hope that it is not the last meeting with this sensational pianist-and a punching thought goes through my head and stubbornly: I hope someone will take Seong-Jin Cho, before leaving, and across the road, to the Romanian Athenaeum; In the temple of the music that is the big room his sound would fit the glove.
After all, Seong-Jin Cho managed to create the atmosphere of the Romanian Athenaeum in the Palace Hall, and this is not a little.
Photo: Ştefania Burcea / George Enescu Festival
An hour and something later, the Romanian Athenaene becomes a house for the Russian stories, because Soprano Asmik Grigorian and travel partner Lukas Geniušas chose a heart, Slavic soul program, songs of Tchaikovski and Rahmaninov, with titles that murmur the essence: Alone again, as before; Only the lonely soul; A tear that trembles
saddle. (Tchaikovsky); In the silence of the mysterious night; Don't sing, my beautiful; A dream; sunset; Spring waters saddle. (Rahmaninov).
Photo: Andrada Pavel / George Enescu Festival
And with the rather discreet appearance, with a dark dress under the chin, with the hair combed on the back, under a pearl tiara, Asmik takes you to a beautiful and good girl from the Russian stories, to the mezine that asks the father to bring them from the fair to Finist Şoimanul.
And there is so much warmth in her voice, so much simplicity and so much strength, that the big room of the Romanian Athenaeum will be excited and she receives her under the red sky, richly ornate.
With his eyes on the sky of the room, with his right hand supported by the piano, Asmik Gregorian is a wonderful thing, he can only appear in a last summer evening that becomes very soon in autumn.
And a surprise, because it does not appear in the program: two songs by George Enescu – and the happy gratitude of the musicians in the room.
And there is more Nocturna in re bemol major for piano by George Enescu, when the man (and Lukas Geniušas almost rises on a few lines, to keep up with the storm, with the rain, with the score), when good, calm, soothing like a starry sky.
Photo: Andrada Pavel / George Enescu Festival
And so came the fall in the fall …
