{"id":28725,"date":"2017-07-20T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=28725"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:15:08","slug":"lukasz-filipczak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=28725","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliant Pole-Star \u0141ukasz Filipczak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"The Professor And the Pianist<\/em><\/span><\/span> <\/em><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After the Concert, in the Olga Sienko Gallery Art Centre, \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 57a Lant Street, London SE1.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

A Concert-Review<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

A Brilliant Pole-Star \u0141ukasz Filipczak<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a corner of a … corner of the Borough<\/em> Underground Station, on the Northern<\/em> line in South London, which became overnight famous because of a very recent terrorist attack, you shall find a gem \u2013 a Polish pearl \u2013 of a mini art-centre.<\/p>\n

It is the brain-child of Olga Sienko<\/strong>, a most extraordinary lady, a consummate artist herself with panache for the new and the shocking, and the intensely erotic, with full support and unconditional love from a business-man husband Peter, who is a prominent… Vintner … in New Zealand!<\/p>\n

It is deeply moving to witness their love \u2013 for Peter, Olga can do no wrong, and he kindly serves bottles and bottles of his fruity wines to welcome Olga\u2019s well-attended artistic functions.\u00a0 Over two long decades now, Olga has been revitalizing the London art-scene with her own original and innovative Exhibitions.<\/p>\n

Recently, she had the incredible idea of using Peter\u2019s venue as a mini classical concert-hall.\u00a0 It could have been a disaster, were it not for the extraordinary virtuosic talent of her Pianist-in-residence, given a cute semi-grand small Steiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And what a divine gift … \u0141ukasz proved its worth in 24 carat gold, by playing an evening of Bach and … Chopin, exclusively (7th<\/sup> July, 2017, 7.30 pm).\u00a0 And what a magnificent Duo \u2013 \u0141ukasz obviously loves Bach, as Chopin did, and I myself worship Bach as the Jehovah of all music<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Piano and string instruments are strange mysterious creatures … whatever the player feels, emotionally<\/span>, runs through the arms and pours out directly onto the strings (the hammers in the case of the piano) which instantly express it.<\/strong> No music expert (be it historian or critic) has been able to explain this incredible mystery unique to the world of music<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 what a performer feels is transmitted to the audience directly<\/span><\/strong>, for which reason, some performers (especially from the world of Piano<\/span><\/em>) go berserk doing what I call \u2018monkey business\u2019 with their faces (for maximum effect).<\/p>\n

When the Pianist is handsome, like Mr \u0141ukasz, tall, with a Samurai pony-tail, it can always be pleasant to watch the performer\u2019s visage during a concert.\u00a0 But when he is blessed with an \u2018ugly\u2019 severe face like … Arthur Rubenstein, one was lucky Rubenstein rarely moved a muscle on his face, while the different emotions still poured out through his fingers!\u00a0 He is the kind of pianist I appreciate and endorse, and \u0141ukasz (like Rubinstein) had a well-restrained and controlled face, without any monkey-business playing havoc with his piano playing.<\/p>\n

Foremost, and even more importantly, \u0141ukasz played by heart, from his heart, and not by a score<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is how all music must be played<\/span>.\u00a0 I am sympathetic to human frailty, and weaker memories, but I would encourage especially the young to internalize the musical piece <\/span><\/strong>they have chosen to play so profoundly, that when they play it, it must feel like they are the … composers creating it for the first time there and then for the audience.<\/p>\n

And if \u0141ukasz can do it … they must all do it, if they wish to acquire the mastery of the musical piece they play.\u00a0 In other words, Music is where Memory plays a vital part in the creative process<\/span><\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0And if a virtuosic instrumentalist is blessed with it, he should never ever get lazy to use it to internalize his chosen repertoire.<\/p>\n

Bach composed a series of Preludes<\/em> and Fugues<\/em> as exercises (even for children!)\u00a0 Without any monkey-business, when Filipczak played the E flat minor Prelude<\/em> and the Fugue in D sharp minor<\/em>, with a delicate subtlety that belied his physical bulk, he converted his mini-gallery concert into a massive Royal Festival Hall event<\/em>… with five Chopin pieces to follow.<\/p>\n

Chopin\u2019s Etude in A flat major Op. 25 No 1<\/em> seemed to be flowing out of an… Aeolian harp<\/em> … Chopin\u2019s music being produced by the close proximity of the two hands on the keyboard, Filipczak\u2019s music flowed like a mountain river pure and wholesome.<\/p>\n

Chopin invented<\/span><\/em> the musical form of the Mazurka<\/em> from Polish folk-music, and Filipczak played four of them (Opus 24<\/em>) in sequence \u2013 unsurprisingly, they were truly variations of the same theme \u2013 it is not possible for a creative artist to be always original and endlessly inventive, even for someone like … Chopin, although his Ballade in G minor op.23<\/em> was the fruit of yet another new musical form, intensely beautiful, and Romantic, and quietly passionate.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, what overwhelmed me, was Filipczak\u2019s performance of the last piece of his highly intelligent program; Chopin\u2019s Polonaise in E flat minor, op 26 No 2<\/em> – Filipczak generated such a powerful emotion of longing for one\u2019s motherland, I palpably felt the whole Polish nation\u2019s passion for freedom, and as an Armenian sharing almost the same national fate<\/span><\/strong>, Filipczak\u2019s piano made me cry and cry in a flood of tears … from a distance I noticed Mrs Olga Sienko\u2019s eyes who had recently visited the Armenian Republic<\/span><\/em>, and was familiar a bit with our history.<\/p>\n

Olga was so concerned by my emotional reaction, that just before I left, she whispered to me discreetly that if I wished to settle in Yerevan<\/em>, she could pull some strings!<\/p>\n

I just could not tell my honey-sweet friend Olga that my country today is ruled by a mafia gang I cannot endorse \u2013 hence more tragic for me to hear Chopin\u2019s Polonaise!<\/p>\n

Even more extraordinary is the musical consciousness that Filipczak aroused in me to recognize the influence of Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony<\/em> and its famous knock of the Fates… I have absolutely no hesitation to insist that Chopin was consciously inspired by Beethoven\u2019s Fifth<\/span><\/em> to compose his specific Polonaise in E flat minor<\/em>.\u00a0 And Chopin\u2019s genius?; is manifest when after a volcanic eruption of nostalgia in complex harmonies, he ends his Polonaise on a single quiet note<\/strong> of meditative sadness.<\/p>\n

And this great discovery of mine, I owe it entirely to Filipczak\u2019s performance.\u00a0 I hope that when he plays his Chopin\u2019s nostalgic Polonaise next, and consciously constructs it on the dimension of Beethoven\u2019s Fifth<\/span><\/strong>, he will enrich the souls of his audience.<\/p>\n

The End<\/p>\n

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