Thursday 2 October 2008

Prague Autumn has finished

Keeeiii, so yesterday I went to the last concert of this years Prague Autumn classical music festival. Antonio Meneses played the Dvořák Cello concerto and funny thing (and the reason why I am actually writing this shit) is that today I met Antonio Meneses in Celetná street where he was sitting in the patio of the restaurant (in the street) and having a drink. (Beer maybe? Thats what Czech Republic is famous for, lol).

Anyway to sum up this festival. Arcadij Volodos was the best from all of the concerts. His interpretation of Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano concerto was breath taking. The pianissimo parts were so gentle that it was stunning. Anyway Nelson Frerie played the Brahms's piano concerto and here I have to say that lots of time he missed the spot and played falsely, but maybe he was just nervous, because (and that is really unaccaptable) they gave him SQUEAKY chair!!! And everytime he moved in the silent parts it was squeaking terribly. What a shame. What a shame.

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