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Posted by Romy the Cat on
02-27-2020
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The last week Amy played BPO concert. A part of program was Liszt’s
second piano concerto, that typically hated but I always liked it. I did not have a lot of expectation but what I
witnessed made me to feel that I just experienced the best alive pianist I ever
heard. It was Lucas Debargue. I do not know a lot about him but his play was
nothing short of stunning. It is very much known that I do not like many of contemporary
players who have spectacular piano techniques but questionable taste, very questionable
underling reasoning and to a great degree play not music in pure form but rather
demonstrate facades of musical expressions. With Lucas Debargue it is so much different and each
of his notes or silence are so much thoughtful and so much meaningful that I
was absolutely shocked how this treasure was able to appear in our times of “globalized
piano playing”. I would say that since Josef Hoffman I hardly heard anything comparable
in piano to Lucas Debargue. Josef Hoffman is long gone but Lucas Debargue is
coming to towns near you….
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