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...since Indjic possesses a complete, effortless, even dazzling virtuoso tecnique, he carries an added responsibility to direct those hard-won skills toward musical goals. Virtuosity alone carried Indjic to intermission. After that, like the car without Platformate...
...program was best characterized by Indjic's performance of the Etudes. These are the exercises that teach the skills of which virtuosity is made. Indjic did his exercises remarkably well. Despite his choice of very quick tempi, he tossed off the flying octaves, thirds, and arpeggios with impeccable clarity and accuracy. Only in Op. 10, no. 4, did the racing notes melt into an indistinguishable blur. In every case he clearly solved the problem of extracting the melodic line from a morass of notes and floating it above the cleanly formed accompaniment. His facility was most clearly demonstrated...
...beyond this simple level. The introspective Chopin Ballades demand an affinity for the unique style in which they were conceived. This is a stiff order for a young pianist but he must--through coaching or through other methods of consciousness expansion--steep himself in the nineteenth century romantic tradition. Indjic, did not show sufficient feel for rubato--the subtle expansions and contractions of meter. And he also lacked a discriminating taste for the shifting counterpoints--phrases, fragments of phrases, even single notes--which must be emphasized as well, to project an interesting performance of these pieces...
Playing Beethoven is a formidable, at times an impossible, undertaking. Perhaps Indjic's failure in this effort lay in not, in either a musical or a spiritual sense, listening for the inner voices. Beethoven is at all times a contrapuntist--essentially a fellow traveller with Bach. Because Indjic failed to convey this essence his performances of the two sonates were generally uninteresting and at times annoying. Nor did Indjic seem to be aware of the overall structure of the works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them...
...Indjic's prospects for the future are limited only by his ability to grow. His ingenuous approach to performing saved this evening from pretension, the most outrageous of concert hall sins...