London でのTchaikovsky Competitionガラ・コン

先日東京で開かれた Tchaikovsky Competitionガラ・コンサートについて書いたブログで，私はアルメニアのチェリストthe 23-year-old Narek Hakhnazaryan, と
ロシアのDaniil Trifonov, 20, winner of the 2011 piano prize
の2人をほぼ同列に高評しました．

今回は，ロンドンで，Tchaikovsky Competitionの新組織委員長として，Competitionを抜本改革したValery Gergiev がprincipal conductor を勤めるLondon Symphony Orchestraに，今回の優勝者4人中3人を招いて，London でガラ・コンサートを開いたそうですが，The Guardian 紙のreview はNarek Hakhnazaryan を高く評価した上で，Daniil Trifonov については，高く評価しながらも，少しHakhnazaryan を見習った方がよい，と論評していました．もう1人のthe South Korean soprano Sun Young-Seoについては厳しい評価をしています．

Sun Young-Seoは先日は日本に来ませんでしたから，来年の本式の東京ガラ・コンサーとを待つほかありませんが，Hakhnazaryanと　Trifonov の部分をご紹介しますと，

The brightest star of the evening was the 23-year-old Narek Hakhnazaryan, an Armenian cellist of real maturity whose performance of the Variations on a Rococo Theme was characterful and well-judged. Playing on a lovely instrument, Hakhnazaryan had the restraint to remain within the conventions of Tchaikovsky's idiosyncratic piece of Russian retro. But he also has the confidence to bring his own personality to the score and to respond to Gergiev's impulsive pushes.　と絶賛しています．

それに対して，Daniil Trifonov, 20, winner of the 2011 piano prize, possesses almost boundless potential, but on this evidence is not yet a fully formed player. The charismatic young Russian tore into the Tchaikovsky first piano concerto with exhilarating confidence and formidable technique. Let's hope he goes on to the great things of which he is clearly capable. But the famous work has more shape, shade and depth than Trifonov found in it. A little of Hakhnazaryan's more poised musicianship would not come amiss.　とその無限の可能性，将来性を評価しつつも，もっともっとチャイコフスキーのshape, shade, depthを掘り下げるべきだったとして，Hakhnazaryan's more poised musicianship を見習うとよいだろうとアドバイスしています．そういえば，東京のガラ・コンサーとで，トリフォノフは自分の力，テクニックを信じて，力任せにオーケストラを圧倒していましたが，翌日のリサイタルでは，私は彼なりのmusicianship を発揮していたという評価をブログに書いた積もりです．

いずれにしても，来年のゲルギエフによるチャイコフスキーの東京ガラ・コンサートが今からいっそう楽しみです．

  

  

LSO/Gergiev – review

Barbican, London

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• • Martin Kettle
  • guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 September 2011 18.03 BST

Hats off to Valery Gergiev for his recent efforts to clean up and repackage classical music's legendary Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. One of the Gergiev reforms is that the winners get to tour with the indefatigable maestro, and this all-Tchaikovsky LSO concert was London's first chance to judge this year's crop in the vocal, cello and piano competitions.

The concert was a fascinating mixed bag, and provided ammunition for advocates and denigrators of music competitions alike. The brightest star of the evening was the 23-year-old Narek Hakhnazaryan, an Armenian cellist of real maturity whose performance of the Variations on a Rococo Theme was characterful and well-judged. Playing on a lovely instrument, Hakhnazaryan had the restraint to remain within the conventions of Tchaikovsky's idiosyncratic piece of Russian retro. But he also has the confidence to bring his own personality to the score and to respond to Gergiev's impulsive pushes.

It was hard to summon as much enthusiasm for the South Korean soprano Sun Young-Seo's performance of Tatiana's letter scene from Eugene Onegin. Despite a briefly arresting start, this was too stately and old-fashioned a piece of singing (with intrusive vibrato) for a scene that needs a girlishness and spontaneity this artist did not seem to command. It seemed the wrong choice for a voice more suited to weightier lyric repertoire.

Daniil Trifonov, 20, winner of the 2011 piano prize, possesses almost boundless potential, but on this evidence is not yet a fully formed player. The charismatic young Russian tore into the Tchaikovsky first piano concerto with exhilarating confidence and formidable technique. Let's hope he goes on to the great things of which he is clearly capable. But the famous work has more shape, shade and depth than Trifonov found in it. A little of Hakhnazaryan's more poised musicianship would not come amiss.