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Tuesday Season at the Athenaeum
Invited on April 12th, 2011, at the Tuesday season at the
Small Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum was the Belgian pianist Jan Heyndericks, 24
years old.
Good, but not brilliant
The performer chose to present a modern romantic repertoire,
which contained large opuses by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann and a piece
of Maurice Ravel’s works. Although I can say he impressed me as only a great
young artist could, it was a pleasure to listen to Jan Heyndericks, who appeared
in front of the audience like a musician who knew and understood his score -
with all its aspects: composition style, shape, harmonic atmosphere, dynamic
and agogic contrasts.
Preoccupation besides his work
Piano Sonata in A major by Schubert was too little
approached, many times with inconsistent
sounds, being impregnated with that lyrism specific to Schubert’s works. We listened
then to the eight pieces of Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 by Schuman, a piece of work
where the contrasted characters of Eusebiu and Florestan are found, the
composer’s alter-egos: Jan Heyndericks performed beautifully and sensibly these
contrasting temperaments. In the end, The Valley of bells from the suite Miroirs
by Ravel and as an encore Erinnerung - A Memory by Schumann dedicated to the
memory of Felix Mendelssohn.
Translated by Elena Enache and Elena Daniela Radu
MTTLC, Bucharest University