This recital is to be given by pianist Ferhat Can Büyük, trained in Istanbul and Poland, who in 2020 won first prize in the solo piano category of the ‘Musica Classica’ Festival in Moscow, an event organised to encourage young performers. He currently teaches the piano at the Istanbul University State Conservatoire and the Fine Arts Faculty of Marmara University.
His programme on October 09 consists of works by Mozart (his Piano Sonata No 12, K 332, noted for the lyrical, song-like themes in its first and second movements); Schubert (his ‘flowing and meditative’ Impromptu No 3 in G flat major with its unusually long melodic lines); Chopin (his Ballade No 2, in which an opening section of naif innocence is followed by one marked Presto con fuoco – ‘Very fast, with fire’); and Liszt (the furious Tarantella from his 1859 triptych Venezia e Napoli – the supplement to the second volume of his Années de pèlerinage). An unsigned article on the ‘ClassicalConnect’ website tells us that this piece is ‘Filled with the pyrotechnics one expects of Liszt’ and that in it, he ‘treats the theme to many florid embellishments which often divert into passages of brilliant filigree’.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
