Cédric Tiberghien am 5.10.08 in Köln

"Finger power, intelligence and heart": Cédric Tibergien gastierte in London und Köln

Kürzlich brachte "Harmonia Mundi France" ein weiteres Album mit Cédric Tiberghien heraus. Es enthält ausschließlich Werke von Johannes Brahms, u.a. die "Klavierstücke", op. 76, und die "Ungarischen Tänze" in der Originalversion für Klavier solo. Beide Zyklen spielte der französische Pianist auch am 18.9.2008 in der Londoner "Wigmore Hall" und im Rahmen seines Kölner Recital-Debüts am 5. Oktober 2008 im "Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal" des WDR-Funkhauses. Darüber hinaus standen Werke von Béla Bartók auf dem Programm.

Unter der Überschrift "Finger power, intelligence and heart" schrieb Geoff Brown am 22. September 2008 in "The Times": "'Casual smart' seemed to be the dress code Cédric Tiberghien was following in his piano recital on Thursday night, the black jacket complemented by a crisp, white, open-necked shirt. A degree of elegance remained even as this 32-year-old Frenchman, a former BBC New Generation artists, leant and crouched, wrestling thumps from the bottom keys in Bartók's Out of Doors suite. As for cool bravado, nothing could top the way that shrugged off the suite's ferocious finale, leaping to his feet as the last note was played. But appearances mislead. Tiberghien's music-making is never superficial. No one cruising on the surface could give us Brahms's Op 76 piano pieces with his degree of poetic understanding or structural control. Whether it was the tender way the B minor Capriccio came to the rest, or the swell of the waves in the agitated Capriccio in F minor, his sence of shape and texture was masterly. And how carefully he judged the necessary weight of each sound. Clearly, Tiberghien is very comfortable with Brahms. It was stimulating of Tiberghien to yoke his composers together. There was Bartók, spellbound by authentic Hungarian folk music; and here was Brahms, remodelling what turned out to be folk music's urban derivatives. Maybe that's why he made the Bartók appear more plausible. We were under a spell immediately in the "night music" movement of Out of Doors, as he teased out and balanced the cries and whispers, each hand colouring tha night differently. Similar dexterity and clarity worked wonders in Bartók's early Hungarian Folk Songs from Csik. The Mikrokosmos selection and the six Romanian Folk Dances gave us the same essential strenghts: finger power, intelligence, heart, the music's details polished without any loss of the big picture. When Tiberghien next plays in London, be there."

Die Aufzeichnung des Kölner Recitals wird am 6. Januar 2009 ab 20:05 Uhr auf WDR3 gesendet!                










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