Word: kuerti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BILLED BY ITS promoters as a symbol of friendship between the Vietnamese and American people, Sunday's concert at Sanders attracted a small but enthusiastic audience. Violinist Joseph Silverstein, concertmaster of the BSO, and pianist Anton Kuerti, artist in residence at the University of Toronto, presented a varied and exciting joint recital to raise money for the rebuilding of Bach Mai hospital, which American bombers destroyed a little over a year ago. The musicians gave no speeches; their playing was eloquent and moving...
...Kuerti presented the Liszt B minor piano sonata, a huge and difficult piece. Its one overblown sonata-form movement takes almost half an hour to perform. In it, Liszt explores extremes of pitch, timbre and volume as he takes two themes through striking and dramatic transformations...
...Kuerti's performance displayed the necessary grand contrasts and driving rhythmic energy. Given the unrelenting technical demands of the work, the many notes he missed did not dispell a highly virtuosic effect. The performance was dramatically unified and entirely convincing...
...addition to these solo works, Kuerti and Silverstein collaborated twice. The Schubert B minor rondo with which they opened the program was disappointing. The performance was disjointed, the phrasing stiff, the lack of rehearsal evident. Insensitive and brusque playing submerged Schubert's lyricism...
...However, Kuerti and Silverstein played it beautifully, extracting all the possible drama and depth from this lollipop. Their playing was relaxed and expressive; Silverstein even added a number of romantic-type slides to his playing, and ended the concert with excitement and style...