{"id":958,"date":"2020-02-13T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=958"},"modified":"2020-02-13T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:51:20","slug":"music-society-celebrations-by-graham-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/music-society-celebrations-by-graham-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC SOCIETY CELEBRATIONS by Graham Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HEART AND MIND AND\nFINGERTIPS<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Graham Marshall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graham Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rochdale Music\nSociety <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LUKA OKROS\npianoforte<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heywood\nCivic Centre<\/strong>  2020 review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the third in what is proving\nto be a musically most rewarding 40th Anniversary Concert Series promoted by\nthe Rochdale MUSIC Society. The young Georgian pianist, Luka Okros, brought his\nEurasian take on the music of four European composers, three of them from\neastern European regions, to delight and bewitch the appreciative audience in\nHeywood Civic Centre. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory\nand the Royal College of Music in London, he has already become an artist of\ninternational acclaim whose technical mastery is put to the service of\nperformances radiating warmth of personality as well as depth of musical\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this occasion Luka chose to begin his concert with a short, but most attractive Sonata in E minor by the 18th century Austrian composer, Haydn, which he played with precision and poise. This was followed by a telling account of the Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor by Polish composer, Chopin. For this work to have its maximum impact the performer has to succeed in making the first two movements and the last movement build up to and follow on from the third movement, which is a lengthy and intense Funeral March. The connections were made so effectively in this performance that, as the last movement\u2019s terrifying outburst of muffled fury in the face of death and the beckoning grave fell silent, the audience\u2019s loud and long applause was thoroughly justified.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second half of the concert began\nwith the Six Musical Moments written in some haste by the Russian composer,\nRachmaninov, in his early twenties at a time when he was in fairly desperate\nneed of money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are often played separately\neither singly or in varied combinations. So a complete performance of them all\nat once gives the pianist and listener alike an opportunity to explore their\ntextural, melodic and harmonic riches in one sitting. It is an exploration well\nworth getting involved in, for it reveals just how spontaneously a musical mind\nlike Rachmaninov\u2019s conceives and gives birth to fully formed and integrated\nideas that are immediately appreciated for their artistic genius and technical\nmastery. From the miasmic and largely subdued wandering up and down the\nkeyboard of the melodic line in the first of these \u2018Moments\u2019 to the paean of\npraise for the resources of the modern piano and its ability to produce sounds\nof noble exaltation with which the sixth one brings to their thunderous\nconclusion Luka\u2019s presentation was as near perfect as you could expect, given\nthat the instrument he was not playing was the latest Fazioli or\nBosendoefer.  Quite astonishing, really! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally astonishing was the\nperformance of the Austro-Hungarian composer Liszt\u2019s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2\nin C sharp minor with which Luka chose to end his programme. When a pianist of\nLuka\u2019s technical accomplishment plays music like this, you can sense that his\nheart and mind are combining to release through his fingertips  the\nfullest extent of the possible communicative energy being built up throughout \nthe body- how else could such apparently effortless speed and sensitivity be\npresent together? With the audience insisting by their applause that he return\nto play an encore, Luka enchanted them with a delicious Intermezzo of his own\ncomposition, and sent them away thoroughly satisfied by an evening of great\nmusical experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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next Rochdale Music Society Concert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next RMS Concert will be on March 7th at 7.30pm in Heywood Civic Centre when members of the Pell\u00e9as Ensemble (Flute, Viola and Harp) will be playing a varied programme of music from the 18th to the 21st centuries. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check www.rochdalemusicsociety.org.\u00a0for details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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