Reviews
Kravchenko plays Prokofiev with the CSO
Sunday, December
12, 2004
YÜKSEL SÖYLEMEZ
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Kravchenko is an impressive grandfather figure, in front of whom
Paganini would have physically bowed, for his mastery and virtuosity
in violin playing. His technique is only matched by his artistic
sensitivity, which is a rare combination. Prokofiev's first violin
concerto could rarely have been played with such virtuosity, demanding
as it is with its intricate music. To play it should be a goal for
every violinist with a claim to virtuosity, yet under Kravchenko's
agile fingers it was child's play with superb sonority and subtlety.
<…> The second night's audience naturally insisted on an encore.
Kravchenko returned to the stage with conductor Nikolaev with a
surprise. The orchestral encore, Saint-Saens' often played and much
loved romantic Rondo Capriccioso, had obviously been prearranged,
though it was not in the program, to conclude the first part of
the concert as a sweetmeat dessert after the intellectual Prokofiev.
It certainly aroused even greater applause. The organizers must
have thought that the 25-minute Prokofiev concerto was perhaps too
short to prove the virtuoso's mastery. Kravchenko returned to the
podium one final time to play Paganini acrobatics with equal agility.
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Sunday, December
12, 2004
YÜKSEL SÖYLEMEZ
<…>
Kravchenko is an impressive grandfather figure, in front of whom
Paganini would have physically bowed, for his mastery and virtuosity
in violin playing. His technique is only matched by his artistic
sensitivity, which is a rare combination. Prokofiev's first violin
concerto could rarely have been played with such virtuosity, demanding
as it is with its intricate music. To play it should be a goal for
every violinist with a claim to virtuosity, yet under Kravchenko's
agile fingers it was child's play with superb sonority and subtlety.
<…> The second night's audience naturally insisted on an encore.
Kravchenko returned to the stage with conductor Nikolaev with a
surprise. The orchestral encore, Saint-Saens' often played and much
loved romantic Rondo Capriccioso, had obviously been prearranged,
though it was not in the program, to conclude the first part of
the concert as a sweetmeat dessert after the intellectual Prokofiev.
It certainly aroused even greater applause. The organizers must
have thought that the 25-minute Prokofiev concerto was perhaps too
short to prove the virtuoso's mastery. Kravchenko returned to the
podium one final time to play Paganini acrobatics with equal agility.
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Kravchenko is an impressive grandfather figure, in front of whom
Paganini would have physically bowed, for his mastery and virtuosity
in violin playing. His technique is only matched by his artistic
sensitivity, which is a rare combination. Prokofiev's first violin
concerto could rarely have been played with such virtuosity, demanding
as it is with its intricate music. To play it should be a goal for
every violinist with a claim to virtuosity, yet under Kravchenko's
agile fingers it was child's play with superb sonority and subtlety.
<…> The second night's audience naturally insisted on an encore.
Kravchenko returned to the stage with conductor Nikolaev with a
surprise. The orchestral encore, Saint-Saens' often played and much
loved romantic Rondo Capriccioso, had obviously been prearranged,
though it was not in the program, to conclude the first part of
the concert as a sweetmeat dessert after the intellectual Prokofiev.
It certainly aroused even greater applause. The organizers must
have thought that the 25-minute Prokofiev concerto was perhaps too
short to prove the virtuoso's mastery. Kravchenko returned to the
podium one final time to play Paganini acrobatics with equal agility.
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Не оставляйте
старанья, маэстро!
<…> Весь вечер на
сцене — Государственный академический симфонический оркестр РК, дирижировал
Толепберген Абдрашев. Солист — замечательный скрипач, профессор Московской
консервzатории Сергей Кравченко. В концерте принимал участие также Государственный
духовой оркестр РК.
По законам гостеприимства с Сергея Ивановича и начнем. Артист неоднократно
выступал перед алматинскими слушателями, исполнял музыку композиторов
разных времен и народов. К сложнейшему шедевру Мендельсона солист отнесся
как к зрелому, этапному сочинению, в котором нашлось место и элегической
созерцательности, и углубленным медитациям философского порядка, и лирическим
отступлениям, вполне пригодным для танцевального перерыва.
Шедевр и исполнения требует соответственного. Необходимо пребывать в безукоризненной
форме, потому-то ни один скрипач не решается держать постоянно в своем
репертуаре этот изысканно-прихотливый концерт Мендельсона. С. Кравченко
продемонстрировал великолепное владение инструментом. <…>
30 декабря,