Concert review

The first work featured the participation of Ukrainian pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi, whom I had not had the opportunity to hear since winning the 5th Jaén International Piano Competition in 2009. He demonstrated great maturity in his performance of Franz Liszt's First Concerto, No. 455, in the final with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. Already in the introductory chords of the Beethoven concerto, the quality of this performer's sound was evident, gently and sweetly pointing to the main theme and foreshadowing the rhythm of the work's first movement. Thus, it is necessary to highlight how from its first gesture it accentuated its tonal weight and the harmonic subtleties it contains, creating the perception in the listener of a natural spontaneity of discourse, also driven from the piano in a bold and at the same time curious way, as could be perceived in the cadenza, whose authorship by the soloist left the creative dimension of Antonii Baryshevskyi, who respected the spirit of the author from an expansive harmonic formalism of diatonic, well-sonant result. Read here