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12-Jun-2009
Wigmore Award Concert 2009, RAM, London – UKby Roland Williams |
 The Wigmore Award Concert, May 18th 2009, supported by Friends of the Royal Academy of Music, which accordionist Ksenija Sidorova shared with two other young artists, soprano Angela Bic and pianist Stefan Ciric, proved to be a brilliant display of young musical talent.Ksenija began her part of the programme by playing the Overture from J S Bach’s ‘Overture and Partita in French style (BWV831)’. This concerto-like work with its lengthy fast bravura passages following its Grave/Maestoso opening, was faultlessly performed and demonstrated mastery of a difficult work. With the audience warmed to her, Ksenija then played Arne Nordheim’s ‘Flashing’ (1986). Contemporary composers’ experimentation with some of special musical possibilities of the accordion do not always prove popular with audiences. On this occasion Ksenija Sidorova succeeded in making the audience listen to this work, with its long crescendos and diminuendos on held notes, with rapt attention in the renowned acoustics of the Wigmore Hall. The work is adapted by the composer as a solo from the cadenza of his accordion concerto, ‘Spur’, and is a piece that could not be played on any other instrument but an accordion. It was received at the end with great enthusiasm. As her final contribution to the programme Ksenija played Alfred Schnittke’s ‘Revis Fairy Tale Suite’, adapted from the composer’s one act ballet ‘Sketches’. Some of the pieces in this suite are in the composer’s so-called ‘polystylistic’ manner and make playful use of well-known tunes of Haydn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Transcription of this work for accordion also makes full use of the accordion’s unique features – huge coupling and interval range, bellow shakes, bent notes to produce humour, crescendo/diminuendo with held notes etc. It earned a roar of approval at the finish. The other artistes in this concert also demonstrated huge talent. Stefan Ciric played Chopin’s ‘Scherzo No3 in C sharp minor’ and Ravel’s ‘La Valse’ with enormous pianistic bravura, and Angela Bic soprano (accompanied by Robin Davis) gave a splendidly accomplished performance of Brahms’ ‘Lutheran Bible settings Op 121’. From the accordionist’s viewpoint it was wonderful to hear an accordion artiste who could match such outstanding talent in London’s Wigmore Hall, a venue sometimes described as one of the world’s ‘museums of music.’ |