![]() Comforting string timbres coloured with incidental sounds like harmonics, portamenti, bows and fingers sliding on non-resonating strings added to a sense of wonderment. ![]() This performance presented what sounded vaguely familiar but passed through a series of distorting prisms and lenses. Pulitzer Prize winning American composer Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte (2011) is well worth several listens because of her skilful subversion of what listeners take for granted as typical string music. Here the listener returns to more familiar territory, and Gintov provides harmonic richness for the ears as this interesting recital disc draws to a breathless and exciting conclusion. Its quiet close in B major leads seamlessly into Scriabin’s far better-known Fantasy in B minor (Op.28, from 1900), its relative major key. So should this be called a waltz-fantasy as well? The first channels agitation and volatility, with flights of fantasy conducted over an increasing demented waltz rhythm, while the second winds down ever so peaceably and dreamily as a slow waltz. The moods in both movements are however reversed. ![]() Composed in 1911, it shares certain similarities with the work of same designation by Scriabin, namely its two-movement form, late Romantic idiom and ecstatically charged atmosphere. The true discovery of Gintov’s recital is the Sonata-Fantasy No.2 by fellow Ukrainian Théodore Akimenko (1876-1945), student of Rimsky-Korsakov and Balakirev, and first composition teacher of Stravinsky. It receives a fine reading that lacks nothing in drama and technical execution. Here, Gintov’s handling of disparate voices in counterpoint is pin-point in its incisiveness.Ĭhopin’s Fantasy in F minor (Op.49), the best-known work of this collection, is ironically crafted in single movement sonata form. This fantasy takes the form of a French overture, opening with a declamation in dotted rhythm, followed by a mighty fugue. More often heard in versions for organ or piano four hands, Gintov’s own transcription is a convincing one. Neither of Mozart’s well-known Fantasias in D minor and C minor are included, but one gets instead the late Fantasia in F minor (K.608), orinally written for mechanical clock. In between, Haydn’s Fantasia in C (Hob.XVII:4) comes across as a kind of light entertainment. Both works delight in unexpected twists and turns, abrupt shifts in moods and dynamics, while revelling in a deliciously shared anarchic spirit. ![]() His son C.P.E.Bach’s Fantasia in C major is as quirky as they come, a close cousin in spirit to Beethoven’s more extended Fantasia in G minor (Op.77). Originally for harpsichord, Gintov’s clarity of articulation is faultless and the play of counterpoint, involving frequent crossing of hands is also excellent. J.S.Bach’s Fantasia in C minor (BWV.906), usually performed without its companion fugue (left incomplete), makes for a stirring opener. However, this distinction became blurred along the way, which is why we have sonata-fantasies and their like, also explored by this fine pianist. In a way, what is not a sonata is a fantasy. Fantasies have evolved over the centuries, beginning as creations of whim and fancy, which later espoused the idea of compositional “free form” as opposed to strict “sonata form”. Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.Prize-winning Ukrainian pianist Pavel Gintov takes the listener on a chronological survey of keyboard fantasies, spanning some two hundred years, from the baroque era to the early 20 th century. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.ĭetails: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. Runtime Error Server Error in '/' Application.
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