With the 25-year-old Georgian pianist Irma Gigani, the jury of the first Bechstein-Bruckner competition selected an outstanding artist as the winner. On Thursday she played the winners’ concert in the Brucknerhaus and impressed with a stupendous technique, but much more with a carefully considered sound balance and the ability to conjure up wonderful melodies.
She showed this right away in the F major Sonata KV 332, in which she not only let Mozart’s subtly used virtuosity be heard, but rather a fine formulation of the phrases that made her sing. The expressive Adagio is full of sound and the perpetual motion-like finale is no less skilful. Sergei Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano Sonata, which the 17-year-old composed during his studies in St. Petersburg and with which Irma Gigani ideally interpreted the fine world of polished humor, but also profound melancholy, is a contrast and yet in many ways not dissimilar to Mozart shone with the utmost precision in the attack and thus accurate audibility of the lines.
Second part with a Chopin focus
In the second part she dedicated herself to Chopin – the Nocturnes op. 48/1 and 72/1, the Polonaise-Fantaisie op.61 and the B-minor Scherzo op.31 – convincing with a crystal-clear touch and elicited the Bechstein- Grand piano skilfully created the warm timbred noble sound, but the formal idea was not always clearly in focus. (wruss)
Conclusion: A successful debut by a worthy winner of the first competition organized by the Berlin piano manufacturer Bechstein and the Brucknerhaus
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