NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER with SALEEM ABBOUD ASHKAR in Florence
BRAHMS EVENING IN FLORENCE
Nikolaj Znaider, photo: V. Baranovsky. IMG artists
Review by Fabio Bardelli
FLORENCE: Conductor, NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER and Pianist, SALEEM ABBOUD ASHKAR
In Florence, Italy, Teatro Comunale, 14th march 2013 with Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Performing JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 and Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Review by Fabio Bardelli.
The program of this concert in Florence featured two masterpieces of Brahms‘ maturity written a few years one after the other, as we can desume from their opus numbers. Conductor was Nikolaj Znaider and pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar for an “all Brahms” program, with two very interesting works from his compositive maturity, beloved by the public everywhere in the world.
Nikolaj Znaider is a multiform musical personality, he’s more famous as a violinist, but he collaborates also with chamber groups, and sometimes he is even a conductor, as in this concert which took place last 14th March.
His conducting Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 didn’t show particular personal interpretative ideas. It was a rather generic performance, not too pondered and not going deep in the score.
SALEEM ABBOUD ASHKAR, soloist in Brahms 2nd Pianoconcerto
Israel-palestinian pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar was the soloist in Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 2, showing a generic expressivity, and certainly not a sound power able to fight with the dense writing for the orchestra
. He didn’t seem particular gifted nor in technical terms neither as an interpreter. So it has been unfortunatelly a rather superficial performance with some good moments alternating with others on an average level. Anyhow he received a good success from the public, and he played also an encore.
The Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino followed generally rather well the conductor, but they showed also lack of concentration in some moments. The public filled the House and was warm with all the musicians.
A stormy and very difficult time for Florence’s Theatre:
Unfortunately this concert takes place in a stormy and very difficult time for Florence’s Theatre: the Government-nominated Inspector who is supposed to settle the economic balance held a press conference and was very clear asserting that the financial problems are so large that even a liquidation of the Foundation and the closing of the theatre were not to be excluded
Penile sensationcontinued efficacy and safety as well as patient and partner cialis generic.
. This is certainly an extreme hypothesis and we all hope that it will not happen, but it’s always a possibility considering the deep financial and management crisis.
Review by Fabio Bardelli
translation from italian Bruno Tredicine