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A daring young man with technique, interpretation and repertoire to be reckoned with! It's so heartening to read that he is (obviously?) doing well in his career.
I will look forward to listening to these unknown (to me) works.
From the latest issue of International Piano, probably the most prestigious magazine devoted to all things piano:
"By contrast, I would assert that there are now many young pianists whose brilliance is complemented by character and originality, suggesting a reaction to such limitation. Can Cakmur, Federico Colli, Lucas Debargue, Benjamin Grosvenor, Alexandre Kantorov, Pavel Kolesnikov, Igor Levit, Beatrice Rana, Alfons Sadana, Yuja Wang(to name but 10) are all artists of rare distiction..."
Bryce Morrison(who I believe is a regular contributor to International Piano)
That's an incredibly distinguished class of pianists.
Thank you very much pianoloverus and everybody! It is always such a pleasure and honour to encounter such posts here every now and then. This community (though some members are not as active anymore) have brought me so much and even though I don't contribute as much I lurk around and read discussions with interest. Thank you all!
"Schubert's music brings tears to our eyes, without any questioning of the soul: this is how stark and real is the way that the music strikes us." Adorno
Here are Youtube performances of movements from two sonatas on the album, the second movement of the Enescu Sonata No.2 and the first movement of the Bartok Sonata. This was the first time I heard the Enescu and thought it was quite beautiful and simply not like anything else I've heard on the piano...so original.
Wow! The Enescu is such a captivating piece— and the performance displayed every nuance. Bravo 👏👏
"Music, rich, full of feeling, not soulless, is like a crystal on which the sun falls and brings forth from it a whole rainbow" - F. Chopin "I never dreamt with my own two hands I could touch the sky" - Sappho
Wow! Congrats, Can 😊 can’t wait until you do a US tour
"Music, rich, full of feeling, not soulless, is like a crystal on which the sun falls and brings forth from it a whole rainbow" - F. Chopin "I never dreamt with my own two hands I could touch the sky" - Sappho
My issue arrived yesterday, and in the interview, a few surprising things came out: for instance, at 12, he only had 6 pieces in his rep (one of them being the first movement of B's Pathetique) when he decided music would be his vocation, and that the Pekinel twin sisters' scholarship scheme allowed him to study in Germany when he was 17.
He believes that the music of the future will be the type exemplified by Adès (whose 2008 piano concerto he'd performed) - serialism, polytonality and minimalism all in the mix. Running 60km a week improved his fitness and mental fortitude , and one of the three books which impacted on him was Brave New World, though he didn't elaborate on how. Maybe he will, in PW, in due course?
"I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
, and one of the three books which impacted on him was 
