Young Israeli pianist Ariel Lanyi shows his stuff at Vancouver Recital Society, starting April 7 at 10 am
The London-based artist’s repertoire spans rapidly shifting Haydn to romantic Szymanowski
Ariel Lanyi
The Vancouver Recital Society streams an online concert by Ariel Lanyi starting April 7 at 10 am
WITH STAGES SHUTTERED, the Vancouver Recital Society has been focusing its digital programming the world’s young, fast-up-and-coming talent.
Its latest find, in a copresentation with Young Classical Artists Trust is Israeli piano sensation Ariel Lanyi, a Jerusalem-raised, full scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London who’s already played with orchestras and chamber musicians around the globe.
In Wednesday’s program, he puts his fingers to a wide range of repertoire. Joseph Haydn’s 18th-century Sonata in C major, Franz Schubert’s emotionally profound Moments Musicaux, Alexander Scriabin’s dramatic Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23, and Karol Szymanowski romantic, early-20th-century Variations in B-flat minor, Op. 3.
His Youtube channels features the young keyboard virtuoso playing the first of those pieces, one the deep-thinking artist calls “a quintessential example of Haydn’s daring, perturbed, and raw style of the 1760s and 1770s. Both its structural and instrumental characteristics defy the norms and boundaries of the time. To name just a few unique features of the work, Haydn disrupts the balance of the music throughout, by leaving the right hand unaccompanied and exposed, by rapidly changing the dynamics, sometimes from one note to the next, and lastly by inserting an extended and fiery coda at the end of the last movement. This sonata is also said to have had a profound influence on Mozart’s C minor keyboard sonata and on Beethoven’s Pathetique sonata, also in the same key.”
The video is below, from the concert hall at the Royal Academy in 2019, and it gives you a sense of the artist's performance style--one that mixes nuanced and highly detailed expression with intelligence.
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