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Solemn beginning, somewhat dramatic, with bold and powerful strokes, without excessive digressions. Then scales ascending and descending, a quick digression through the keys, a delicate glide over the keyboard, and a crisp conclusion.
Then melody, sweet, slow, taking its time, and not too complicated. A theme that will repeat several times for a few minutes. The most delicate description. Then a light, yet well-defined march, with an increasingly decisive conclusion. Again the sweet melody, again the decisive conclusions. A digression through the piano's meanders, but an almost immediate return to the theme, which returns with more confidence, as if on a well-paved road. The atmosphere becomes a bit darker, less joyful. The fingers follow each other frantically, the left holds a heavier base, while the right swiftly sketches a wise embroidery.
14 minutes have passed, magnificently by the way. Change of theme, another march on the white keys, but faster. Again the scales follow each other. But the previous march... becomes unusually lively, vibrant, every little note gives you a jolt to the heart, then up the throat, then to the eyes that magically light up. Your mind goes into total delirium, an immense pleasure, you haven't felt like this in a lifetime! The conclusion is heartrending, the sweetness fades, hearing the last fatal chord, and sweat drips heavily from your temple.
I have just described the indescribable. I had the honor, many months ago now, to witness live the performance of this solo piano piece by Alexei Volodin, a young talent already famous. At the end of those 20 minutes, I really struggled to hold back tears, so great was the emotion inside me, the feeling that pianist visibly felt and wanted to convey in playing such a piece. An immense joy, truly indescribable. I have listened to it hundreds of times, and the emotion does not diminish each time.
Liszt is good for the heart, it washes away all that accumulated music that you don't need, all that filth and banality that only the music of our century can load onto your shoulders.
If you don't find it moving, it will certainly serve you as a clear example of how to use an instrument like the piano, the most astonishing of all, with boundless potential and capable of leaving you speechless.
Accuse me, mock me, do what you want with my review which in fact is not one, but have the necessary intelligence not to miss this.
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