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34 years old, winner at 16 of the “Busoni” award, pianist Anna Kravtchenko arrived at the Gog on Monday night as a substitute of expected Vogt who was stuck in Berlin by the toxic cloud. Kravtchenko, a de-luxe substitute, presented us with a wonderful event. With her impeccable technique, and her powerful piano-playing capable at the same time of enchanting suppleness of sound, she gave the best of herself in the three Intermezzos op. 117 by Brahms that she performed with elegant phrasing and fullness of sound, and in the luminous Hungarian Rhapsody n.12 which showed her predilection for Liszt’s symphonic piano compositions. Worthy of mention were also Schumann and the initial Chopin, in particular the Sonata op.35.
Roberto Iovine