After the Mazurkas by Chopin, Couperin, the Goldbergs, each CD by Pavel Kolesnikov is awaited in the hope of a musical revelation. So, Reynaldo Hahn? After all, why not, the prince of elegance? There can be supreme musicality without rubbing shoulders with abysses and, these days, Eros hidden in the woods and Terpsichore’s feast may be good natural antidepressants. And what about the sublime Awakening by Flora ? In practice, these pieces are part of the collection of 53 poems for piano The distraught nightingale. As with the Mazurkas of Chopin, Kolesnikov has selected a part (25), arranged according to an interior route. And here he is combining, by his own admission, Proust (his subtraction from the world), Hahn’s music and his own sanitary confinement. Those who experienced Kolesnikov’s concert at Pollack Hall can imagine what it means to “open up to a kind of inner listening”, the goal pursued by the performer. There is above all, here, a lot of nostalgia and endless music, which we discover speechless.
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