Affectionately called "Fima," Yefim Bronfman creates fireworks as well as illuminating and transcendent moments in his recital.
This was certainly the case recently at the Schubert Club.
This is one concert well worth listening to over and over.
Yefim played a seldom performed work - Tchaikovsky's "Grand Sonata" last heard at the Ordway in 1918. It's a piece of such gorgeous pianistic color it brings into focus for ballet lovers a whole new side of Tchaikovsky.
Schumann's "Faschingsschwank aus Wien." -- Carnival Scenes from Vienna -- is full of moments of dizzying speed and a sense of being completely out-of-control, contrasted with tender and poignant slow movements that leave one feeling Fima uses the piano as an extension of his soul, a source of emotional expression rather than a vehicle to show-off his technique.
Though the concert was full of spectacular displays of technique. In the Prokofiev Sonata, a slow burn leads to a frenzied conclusion that brought concert-goers to their feet with loud cheers and bravos. Two encores by Chopin and Listz followed.
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