Piotr anderszewski biography of barack
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His future looking bright, with bookings at this summer’s Tanglewood festival and New York’s Avery Fisher Hall next January, 33-year-old Polish-born pianist Piotr Anderszewski performed Tuesday evening at the University of Connecticut’s von der Mehden Recital Hall.
His program was the landmark Diabelli Variations of Beethoven, the composer’s last will and testament to the piano, followed by four of Bach’s preludes and fugues from the second book of “The Well Tempered Clavier” and Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B-flat major.
Walking on stage sporting black leather pants and an unbuttoned coat jacket with black T-shirt, Anderszewski, over the course of the evening, gave the impression of a musician of wild extremes: thunderous power on the verge of harshness alternating with muted tender moments that bordered on the inaudible and very precious.
His temperament, in fact, worked wonders with the quicksilver and extroverted character of the Beethoven and with mixed results in the more refined Bach. Yet Anderszewski executed the program with consistent clarity, accomplished voicing and great technical command.
Rivaling Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” in scope and imagination, Beethoven’s “33 Variations on a Walt
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The Cross-Eyed Pianist
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