{"id":2870,"date":"2010-01-13T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2010-01-13T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T05:06:00","slug":"chopin-reverberating-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Chopin – Reverberating Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first concert in the series of piano recitals celebrating Chopin\u2019s 200th anniversary<\/a>, Chopin \u2013 Reverberating Heritage, will take place on Saturday, January 16th at the Einav Cultural Center. The concert, \u201cInvitation to a Dance,\u201d will indeed reverberate with heritage as the two pianists, Daniel Gortler and Victor Stanislavsky, represent the tradition of Israeli musical excellence as passed on from teacher to student. Gortler was Stanislavsky\u2019s teacher and mentor during his undergraduate studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. For his master\u2019s degree Stanlislavsky studied with ArieVardi, who had been Gortler\u2019s teacher, thus completing the circle. The concert series is a collaboration of the Israel Conservatory of Music and The Polish Institute.<\/p>\n

The program includes\u00a0the Waltz, Impromptu and Polonaise, with compositions by Chopin as well as Schumann, Brahms, Schubert and Strauss. Although composing in the same genres, \u201cEach composer is a different world,\u201d says Stanislavsky, in a phone interview, \u201calthough they are all from the Romantic period, their character and internal rhythms are different. Playing a Polonaise by Chopin (he will be performing Polonaise in d minor, Op. 71 No. 1) and then one by Schumann (with Gortler), our challenge is to express the difference. Schumann is dreamier, more poetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Daniel Gortler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gortler, in a past-midnight post-performance phone conversation, reminded Midnight East that \u201cChopin comes from a Polish background, and that is where these dances were born. The Mazurka, the Polska\u2026They all have the same rhythm: pam pa pa pam, but the Romantic shading and language is different in the hands of a German composer. Chopin\u2019s music is more connected to Polish folklore, it is closer to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanislavsky will play the Waltzes, Gortler the Impromptus, and each will play a Polonaise by Chopin, followed by four-handed selections from Brahms, Schumann and Strauss. Comparing Schubert to Chopin, Gortler said that he finds him \u201cmore introverted and refined, less virtuosity and more attention to colors and shadings.\u201d Both pianists commented on the complexity and rich texture of Brahms, whose compositions are more orchestral. Ultimately, Gortler says, \u201cThe sounds say more than words can express.\u201d The best way to understand the differences and similarities between the composers is to attend the concert and experience their works.<\/p>\n

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Victor Stanislavsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The evening will close with Strauss. Says Stanislavsky, \u201cI don\u2019t know if people will be able to sit still in their chairs for this one, it was, after all, written as dance music. That is why Strauss\u2019 waltzes are so long and have so many repetitions \u2013 so that the dance would not end too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Introducing the recital series is a lecture by Dr. Ron Regev, \u201cBetween Warsaw and Paris, Longings and a Revolution,\u201d will take place on January 15, at 11:30, at the Israel Conservatory, 193 Ben Yehuda Street, Tel Aviv, the lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 16th at 20:30
\nEinav Cultural Center, 71 Ibn Gvirol Street<\/p>\n

Information: 03-5466228, www.icm.org.il\/chamber<\/a>, chamber@icm.org.il<\/a><\/p>\n

An Invitation to a Dance
\nPianists: Daniel Gortler & Victor Stanislavsky
\nChopin: Three Waltzes, Op. 34
\nChopin: Waltz in f minor, Op. 70 No. 2
\nChopin: Watlz in D-flat major, Op. 61 No. 1 (“Minute Waltz”)
\nChopin: Polonaise in d minor, Op. 71 No. 1
\nChopin: Polonaise in f-sharp minor, Op. 44
\nChopin: Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 29
\nChopin: Impromptu No. 4 in c-Sharp minor, Op. 66 (Fantasie-Impromptu)
\nSchubert: Impromptu in f minor, Op. 142 No. 1
\nBrahms: Waltzes for Piano Four Hands, Op. 39
\nSchumann: Three Polonaises for Piano Four Hands
\nJohann Strauss: “Roses from the South” – Waltz for Piano Four Hands<\/p>\n

Daniel Gortler won first prize in Chile’s Vina del Mar International Competition in 1987, and in the Bremen International Piano Competition in 1991, placed second in the Munich International Piano Competition, and, at the age of 19, third at the Geneva International Piano Competition. He has also won the Gina Bachauer Award in Jerusalem and the Salon de Virtuoso annual award in New York. In addition to concert performances, he is currently a faculty member at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n

Victor Stanislavsky was born in the Ukraine in 1982 and immigrated to Israel in 1990. He received the Second Prize in the China International Piano Competition in 2007, Second Prize, Special Prize in the 2007 Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition and First Prize in the 2006 Viardo International Piano Competition. In addition to performing in almost 50 concerts a year, he is the pianist for a conductor\u2019s course at Tel Aviv University and works with singers there, and also enjoys teaching piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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