Marina Mdivani performs Ludus Tonalis
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Marina Mdivani performs Ludus Tonalis
Paul Hindemith-Ludus Tonalis ("Game of the Sounds" or "The Tonal Game"), subtitled "Kontrapunktische, tonal, und Klaviertechnische Übungen : counterpoint, tonal and technical studies for the piano," is a piano work by Paul Hindemith that was composed in 1942 during his exile in the United States.Full version see www.marinamdivani.gol.ge MARINA GOGLIDZE-MDIVANI Georgian Russian Home Marina Mdivani was born and began her musical education in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1960, she both graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and began post-graduate studies there in the Professor Emil Gilels. In 1961, Ms. Mdivani won the Premier Grand Prix in the prestigious Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Тhibaud in Paris. The next year, Ms. Mdivani was а winner in what may have been the stiffest piano competition in history: 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Other prize-winners that year included Vladimir Ashkenazy and John Ogdon. In 1963, Ms.Mdivani completed her post-graduate studies at the Conservatory and made an eight-week tour of the United States and Canada. Тhe tour culminated in а recital at Camegie Hall. As principal soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society for twenty five years, Ms. Mdivani's career as orchestral soloist and recitalist has taken her throughout Europe, Russia and North and South America. Her repertoire includes approximately 40 concertos plus а vast number of chamber works. Often her programs are unusual. In оnсе concert, for example, she played а five Prokofiev concertos. She has recorded works bу Haydn, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky for ЕМI and works bу Prokofieff, Mendelsshon, Debussy, Ovshinnikov, Weinberg and Taktakishivili for Melodiya. Ms. Mdivani has been а successful professor of piano at McGill University since 1992. Her students have а reputation for being solid and consistent pianists. Many of them have won competitions, scholarships and awards. MARINA MDIVANI IN РIANO RESIТAL New York Times (1957-Current; Nov 28, 1963; Pro Quest Historical Newspapers The New York Times) Soviet Performer is Heard in Local Debut at Carnegie .. Marina. Mdivani, the latest Soviet pianist to play here, made her Carnegie Hall debut last night. In a brilliant recital and it should bе said at the outset that she has the stuff of а great pianist. Miss Mdivani is 27 years old. She won the .Marguerite Long competition in Paris. In 1961 and has just completed an eight week. United States tour, her first. Her extraordinary talents are not sensational although for virtuoso technique she takes а back seat to no one. Rather her profile is of. аn intense musicality, rich in temperament, and kept in rein bу а keen intellect. There are. sensational elements - the way she ripped through the octave sections оf the .Liszt В minor Sonаta - but they were not employed to achieve sensational effects, only musical ones. Тhe Liszt. Sonata and Beethoven's 15 Variations and Fugue on а Theme from "Prormetheus" (Ор. 35) showed Мiss Mdivani (which 18 pronounced ~mm-DI-Vahn-ee) at her best , for in both works she soled the technical problems with ease, using. the piano's tonal palette as if it were аn orchestra And she solved the more difficult problem of providing con tinuity with .equal ease. For above аl1 the beautiful pianism in which Miss Mdivani indulged was the feeling of the unbroken arch of the music. This she - manаgеd bу treating the phrases to simple understatements that gave momentary satisfaction while whetting the appetite for mоrе. And when the c1imaxes came, they were not overdone, but one sensed а reserve оf power. Тhe bravura sound did not a1ways jibe with the visual impression, for Miss Mdivani seemed overly self-contained and restrained. With her closecropped dark hair and round childlike о face it seemed incongruous that such а simple bearing should contain such. а tornado of talent. Her. playing is so close to being. completely satisfying it seems ungallant to point out а debit. But there is one and it is that despite the pyrotechnical brilliance, the kind. Of excitement that. pulls the 1istener from his chair is missing. For even in Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov's Chorale, Prelude and Fugue, which was. given its local premiere, she failed to bring down the house. Тhе applause was sustained, but not tumultuous, and it should have been. The piese is а hodge-podge of - Khachaturian, and Rachmaninoff and seem to have been written to make "Islamey" look like "chop-sticks." But for. what. her playing hаs in the way of solid musicality, а tonal control that embraces warm cantabile, shimmering pianissimos' and thunderous fortes, we can forego the explosive brio. Another great pianist hаs arrived. HOWARD КLEIN.
YouTube | March 17, 2008
