![]() ![]() This is music that above all shows off the almost-orchestral range that Batsashvili (pictured above by Josef Fischnaller) can summon at the keyboard. Meanwhile, Batsashvili responded adroitly to the score’s quicksilver changes of weather, as shifts in colour and dynamics tracked the wandering hero’s path between stormy unrest and sun-dappled calm. That striking, resonant left-hand voice always found a path through the dreamy chromatic landscapes in the upper register. Liszt may sit close to this player’s artistic heart, and her character at the keyboard, but the questing “Vallée d’Obermann” section from the first, Swiss, volume of his Années de Pelerinage never gave way to misty Romantic vagabondage for its own sake. ![]() Her ability to switch from lyrical serenity to ferocious attack found its perfect outlet in the – still – outrageous presto coda to the sonata’s finale, an upsurge of demonic energy she channelled with swaggering authority. She sustained this satisfying pianistic yin and yang throughout the evening. There was measure and steadiness in the andante, properly con moto and never becalmed or over-sweet, and a rippling liquidity in the right hand balanced by a firmly-grounded earthiness in the bass. Her Beethoven brooded, reflected and then exploded, the ardour and agitation of the opening allegro complemented by the mellifluous grace she demonstrated in between the cloudbursts. Georgians do things differently.Īt the piano, Batsashvili projects a serious poise leavened by flashes of whirlwind exuberance and even madcap humour. Rather than starting with an easy-listening welcome and building to grand final statement, she launched straight into Beethoven’s Appassionata sonata and finished with a can-can. Batsashvili, however, displayed her muscular but polished pianism in an intriguing order of battle. ![]() Last night’s Wigmore Hall recital (not her first) put Liszt’s music at the heart of a programme that revealed the almost-symphonic textures and colours that a single pianist can achieve with full-spectrum solo compositions of the kind. ![]()
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