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Les Nuits du piano d'Erbalunga: a Corsican rhapsody

2021-07-28T14:35:20.412Z


This festival, which more readily programs revelations than headliners, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. And for the first time settles in Ajaccio.


Andreï Gavrilov, great Russian pianist on the return, swings the last bars of his sonata by Prokofiev, jumps off the stool, raises his arms and salutes like a boxer.

It was in 2014. Another vivid memory is that of Miroslav Kultyshev and his poignant interpretation

of Liszt's

Sonata in B minor

.

The soloist's face split into a childish smile.

The artists show, it is our impression, of a particular sincerity at the Nuits du piano d'Erbalunga.

Insularity?

The stormy charm of Corsican summers?

After having to cancel its edition last year, the festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this summer.

It programs five concerts, from July 30 to August 8, in three different places: in the vast Green Theater of Erbalunga - at the foot of Cap Corse -, in the courtyard of the Palace of the Governors of Bastia and, for the first time , at Casone d'Ajaccio.

An esplanade with a capacity of 1,200 places where, they say, Bonaparte wandered dreaming of battalions.

Pianists Vardan Mamikonian and Clément

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Source: lefigaro

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