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After Stanislaw Drzewiecki's US Tour
Monday, 24 April 2006
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Bożena U. Zaremba
Stanisław Drzewiecki has finished another concert tour of the United States. On March 19, 2006 he appeared at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center with a recital organized by the Chopin Society of Atlanta. The program consisted of pieces by Frederick Chopin, such as  | | Copyright: hiMOTION Cognitive Video |
Polonaise A-flat major, Op. 53, Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1, and Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66, as well as by Franz Liszt. Pierre Ruhe, a distinguished music critic from the major Atlanta newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, observed that in the first part devoted entirely to Chopin’s music, Drzewiecki was humble in his approach to the ambitious program, letting the composer speak for himself. At the same time Drzewiecki displayed “a thrilling, note-perfect accuracy at the keyboard, even in the most treacherous spots” and presented “cogent, well-argued interpretations”.
The second part of the concert was dominated by a persuasive interpretation of Franz Liszt’s Grandes études de Paganini. Ruhe wrote that the pianist’s “hands were a blur of trills and lightening-fast runs down the keyboard, yet [Drzewiecki] also opened up the quirky harmonies and odd figurations” of these six brilliant masterpieces. Drzewiecki received a standing ovation and in return gave the audience an extra thrill by playing Rachmaninoff’s Presto E minor n.4 op.16 and Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, no.7, op.28, as an encore.
The three-week concert tour took Drzewiecki also to Florida (Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Key West, and Miami) and to Los Angeles, where, besides Chopin and Liszt, he performed works by Schubert and Rachmaninoff. It is worth mentioning that during that tour Drzewiecki signed an exclusive five-year contract with a prestigious music manager Maxim Gorshunoff.
Stanisław Drzewiecki’s website: www.sdrzewiecki.com.pl
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