Ivo Pogorelić at the Chopin Festival in Warsaw

By Jonathan Sutherland, 21 August 2015

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Reviewed at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw on 20 August 2015

Chopin, Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op.58

Liszt, Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année, Italie: Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi sonata, S.161 no.7

Schumann, Fantasie in C major, Op.17

Ivo Pogorelić, Piano

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Alain Matalon, 26th March

Ivo Pogorelich returns to Istanbul with an utterly arduous programme. Mr Pogorelić may have his adversaries and his admirers, but this was a triumphant evening for piano music.

****1

A curious comeback: Ivo Pogorelich

Frances Wilson, 24th February

Ivo Pogorelić returned the London stage after an absence of 15 years in a concert comprising big, popular works of the standard repertoire, which tested the pianist’s technical and interpretative skills to the limit.

**111

Philharmonia and Pogorelich perform an all-Russian programme

Hannah Gill, 25th November

Throughout history, artists and composers have been known to cause controversy with groundbreaking new works that shocked and challenged audiences. Yet some, like Tchaikovsky (whose Piano Concerto was rejected by his mentor Rubinstein), managed to maintain the strength of their musical convictions in the face of public rejection.

Le Beethoven apathique d'Ivo Pogorelich à la Philharmonie de Paris

Pierre Michel, 9th November

Loin de proposer un panorama de l'écriture beethovénienne, le récital du pianiste a déçu par ses tempos systématiquement stagnants, son manque de cohérence et de caractère.

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Ivo Pogorelich à la Philharmonie : il est où le génie ?

Alain Lompech, 12th November

Le pianiste croate a proposé un récital singulier, riche en trouvailles sonores – quitte à rendre certaines œuvres méconnaissables – et avec une technique fabuleuse – bien que sur le déclin.

***11

El momento de Ivo Pogorelich en su visita con la Fundación Scherzo

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 16th October

El pianista serbio ofreció un recital variable que alcanzó sus mejores momentos con las obras de Schumann y Schubert.

***11

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Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.