As early as 2005, we drew your attention to the German pianist Michael Korstick. This artist, now 66 years old, who evolves on the fringes of the international circuit, was then recording Beethoven sonatas for Oehms. His appearance as a “good and learned teacher” does not allow one to imagine interpretive flights or aesthetic intoxications. And therein lies the problem: that of the image and preconceived ideas. We would so much like to see the media frenzy and cries of genius if, precisely, these two discs were adorned with the photo of Alice Sara Ott, Igor Levit, Grigory Sokolov or another icon of advertisers, media and social networks. With Korstick, that will not be the case, which does not hide an unstoppable reality: these two CDs of works by Scarlatti are formidable in their sonic imagination, finesse of touch and science of the pedal, and this, from the Sonata K.380, which is reminiscent of Emil Guilels and Sari Biro. Poetic and playful, Korstick uses all the resources of the piano to magnify Scarlatti, like Zacharias, Babayan or Sudbin.
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