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2021-08-18 09:06:06
High Energy: an evening of firsts from the Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani at the BBC Proms
[…] Reiser) which with the dramatic lighting brought something of the club-nite vibe to the hall, and the 16 players managed to fill the hall with vibrant sound. We were grabbed from the word go with the furious energy of Henryck Gorecki's Harpsichord Concerto. Whilst the work has Baroque-inspired structures underneath, this is a world away from the composer's best known work the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Written in 1980 for the Polish harpsichordist Elżbieta Chojnacka, the work is short but its two movements present a torrent of sound. The opening featured chorale-like music on the strings, played with intense energy by Manchester Collective seemingly set on making the hyperactive harpsichord part, brilliantly played by Mahan Esfahani, inaudible. Throughout the work there was this sense of struggle between the two. There were luminous moments, and during the second movement an element of dialogue, though the furious energy was present throughout. […]
2020-03-10 08:14:08
Poulenc at the piano: a chance to hear an alternative version of the 'Concert champêtre' on this new disc of concertos and chamber music
[…] written for the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who played on a harpsichord that was very much a modern creation; her favoured instrument was the Pleyel Grand Modele de Concert harpsichord - a seven-and-a-half foot long instrument with foot pedal-controlled registers and which owed much to piano construction. Such instruments are rarely used (or available) in modern performance and balance between soloist and orchestra can be tricky, to say the least. [Try the Naxos recording with Elisabeth Chojnacka, the Orchestra National de Lille and Jean-Claude Casadesus if you want to hear a performance of the concerto using a large-scale 20th century harpsichord].Poulenc created a version of the concerto for piano and orchestra, and whilst he said to a friend that it was a make-shift ('un pis aller') he did actually play the piano version rather a lot. And I have to say that on this disc, Mark Bebbington is a convincing advocate. […]
2017-06-04 02:00:00
Polish harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka died in May 2017
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2017-05-29 15:10:08
Sad news: Death of a harpsichord legend
The Paris-based Polish harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka has died, aged 78. After graduation from the Chopin academy in 1962, she moved to Paris where she established a niche at the heart of the modernist movement. More than 80 composers wrote for her instrument, among them Ligeti, Xenakis, Nyman and Gorecki. She was phenomenal.
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