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Three more left to play their Mozart Concertos - Julia just finished

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on June 25, 2015 at 09:14:26

In Reply to: Thanks! posted by rbolaw on June 25, 2015 at 06:24:58:

Madeline and I heard all six of the Mozart performances from yesterday and three from today (although we heard only the tail end of Geniusas' K. 466), and we've modified our predictions for the final round a bit, especially in view of Sergey Redkin's indifferent performance of the earlier A-major Concerto (No. 12, K. 414), so we both demoted him off of our top six lists:

Lucas Debargue (France - Yamaha)
Lukas Geniusas (Russia/Lithuania - Steinway)
Daniel Kharitonov (Russia - Steinway)
George Li (USA - Steinway)
Dmitry Masleev (Russia - Steinway) - he hasn't played yet, but we're assuming he does OK with his Mozart K. 466

For the sixth spot, we disagreed. Madeline is picking Maria Mazo (Germany - Fazioli), while I'm going with Ilya Rashkovskiy (Russia - Yamaha). I'm hearing Julia's K. 488 as I write this. Gawd, she's terrible - so many thoughtless mistakes and so much uneven tone production!

One nice thing about the Mozart Concerto round is that the competition used TWO orchestras. One was the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, which, as I mentioned yesterday, has allowed the string non-vibrato affectation to become part of its corporate sound. The other is the Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble, which plays with a more pleasing sonority which includes the use of vibrato. Unfortunately, this latter orchestra is not as agile as the MCO, and they're often sluggish and late. Their conductor, Ayrton Desimpelaere (a boy-babe, as Madeline points out!), seems very tentative as well. That's an extra burden for the pianists who played with this orchestra.

Julia has just finished now, so there are three left in the Mozart concerto stage of Round 2.

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