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| YOUNG RUSSIANS UNITE Yana
Polyanovskaya and Irina Feoktistova, both graduates of the St. Petersburg
Conservatoire, have been playing as a piano duo for ten years, and it
shows. Not only is the ensemble perfect, but they have completely mastered
the art of tightening and relaxing rhythms in unison, as well as instinctively
setting foreground detail against background accompaniment, swapping roles
imperceptibly as the music demands.
All this was evident in Rachmaninov's Suite # 2, a warm, effusive performance,
utterely Romantic. So unscanny
was the precision of ensemble, effected with a minimum of gestures, that
one empathised with a shadow of frustration that flickered across Polyanovskaya's
face at the one chord in the recital that was not quite together. A similar
mastery was demonstrated in Valery Borobikov's transcription of Schnitke's
Gogol Suite, where the irony was at once entertaining and unsettling.
Geoffrey Poole's The Impersonal Touch, receiving its world premiere, offered
multiple opportunities for sophisticated interaction between instruments.
The Russians emerged triumphant. CLASSIER COSI GOES BACK TO COLLEGE There
was plenty of refinement to be encountered at the Purcell Room this week,
which has been resounding to the sounds of the generation of musicians
in the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series. As always, the repertoire
is entirely from the 20th century, though Rachmaninov's Suite # 2 for
Two Pianos of 1901only just qualifies. This formed the climax to the recital
given by the Russian duo Yana Polyanovskaya and Irina Feoktistova. THE PROMISE OF SPRING …
Yana Polyanovskaya and Irina Feoktistova from St. Petersburg were the
piano duo, and what an accomplished, seasoned interpretation of Rachmaninov's
Suite # 2 they offered. … BRILLIANT MISTAKES The PLG concerts are all about performance. The artists approach them as if making their debuts in the capital, which many of them are, and the atmosphere is tense. The week's stars were the Russian two-piano duet Yana Polyanovskaya and Irina Feoktistova who were so desperate to perform here that they had paid their way twice from Moscow for both the audition (which the judges applauded spontaneously) and the performance. The were nervous but brilliant. They made perfect sense of their compatriot Alfred Schnitke's 1976 Gogol Suite as they tossed virtuoso solo parts back and forth to each other across the bellies of their interlocking instruments. You don't get that effect on recordings either. They made light of Schnitke's polytonalities, fun with his strident dissonances and a show of his special effects. At the zenith of a huge climax, Yana stood up and, with mock solemnity, placed a piece of paper under the strings of the piano, preparing it in the John Cage way, silently, as if doing something ritually mundane like laying the table. Jones R. The Review. The Observer's Political, Cultural and Literary Weekly (London). 14.01.1996 CLASSICAL. YOUNG ARTIST SERIES / PARK LANE GROUP. PURCELL ROOM, LONDON The
two primly dressed young ladies, late of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire,
may not look like the Labeques, but in style and technique these pianists
are as hot as two nuclear rods. Their all-two-short recital cropped up
in the middle of Park Lane Group's annual Young Artist Series - a week-long
programme that unites talented young performers with music of this century.
It's now in its 40th year. HARMONIE DER ZWEI KLAVIERE Jana
Polianovskaia und Irina Feoktistowa spielen im Klavierduo schon 10 Jahre
zusammen. Ganz natürlich ist das sichere Einspiel des Duos, wann
man nicht sehen und "fängen" einander muss, das reicht
zu hoeren und sich zu fuellen. Die technischen Moeglichkeiten und der
musikalische Horizont (beiden hilft auch die musikwissenschaftliche Ausbildung)
duerfen schnell erlernen und die schwerste Werke spielen. DER DRITTEN PREIS AN DEM "1. CHAIN WETTBEWERB ZEITGENÖSSISCHER MUSIK" (WEIMAR, HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK "FRANZ LISZT"). DAS KLAVIERDUO JANA POLJANOWSKAJA / IRINA FEOKTISTOWA Der Wettbewerb fand von 26 bis 28 April statt. An dem nahmen 13 Soloists, Duos und Trios, empfohlen bei der Hochschulen Deutschlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Russlands und Frankreich, teil. Im Wettbewerb war der Vortrag der zeitgenössischen Musik erförderlich, meistens - bei heute lebenden Komponisten. Das Repertoire des Duos Poljanowskaja / Feoktistowa umfasste "Phantom" von T. Buchholz (1995), "The Impersonal Touch" von J. Poole (1995), "In memoriam" von P. Wasks (1977) und "Rewizskaja Skazka" von A. Schnitke (Fassung für zwei Klaviere). Musikal'noje Obozrenije (Moscow), Mai-Juni, 1996 1. CHAIN-WETTBEWERB 26. - 28. APRIL 1996 WEIMAR Von
russisch rauschenden Klangwelten bis zu Pianissimo-Tupern entwickelt sich
Pooles "The impersonal Touch" fuer zwei Klaviere, das die Petersburginnen
voller Temperament vortragen. In exaktestem Zusammenspiel bringen sie
die Parallelakkorde bei Vasks kanonischem "In memoriam", mit
Sinn fuer die Verbindung aus Alt und Neu Schnittkes der "Zauberfluete"
entlehnten vierten Satz aus "Rewiskaja Skaska". ZWEI KONZERTE, EINE UBERSCHNEIDUNG ...
in Schenkenberger Kirche: <...> Die funfzig Sanger des Delitscher
Oskar-Reime-Chores hatten sich mutig an das schwierige Stuck /Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium
- J.P./ gewagt - und brillierten. Unterstutzung gab's von Jeremias Heining
und Eva Boeckenhauer an der Geige, Jana Polianovskaia an der Orgel und
Uwe Dorn an den gro?en Pauken. |