{"id":4723,"date":"2018-11-05T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:49:04","slug":"dancing-fires-fragrances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4723","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Fires & Fragrances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worthing\u2019s Autumn Interview Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHer playing bristled with character of many types\u201d . . . \u201cEdge-of-your-seat Haydn\u201d [Sonata No 52 in Eb]. . . \u201cmesmerising Stravinsky\u201d [The Firebird] . . .\u201cThe best piece of piano playing I\u2019ve heard in 10 years\u201d [Ravel, La Valse].<\/p>\n

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. . . Things said and written this year about pianist Rhythmie Wong, who is the next Interview Concerts guest artiste at St Paul\u2019s Worthing on Sunday November 18 (3.30pm for 4pm). Indicative of her artistic breadth and background, she also plays violin, clarinet and composes. A young native of Hong Kong, incidentally, her parents named her sister Melodie.<\/p>\n

Rhythmie Wong\u2019s repertoire for this concert \u00a0creates a feast for the senses and imagination. Her poetry and virtuosity ignited and sent shimmers of admiration and anticipation through the Sussex International Piano Competition (SIPC) at Worthing in May. She is one of the three finalists due automatically to appear in these now keenly-awaited concerts.<\/p>\n

The International Interview Concerts are Worthing\u2019s intimate open door into the music that changes so many people\u2019s lives. They are not the spectator world of stadium rock, large concert hall or formal recital room, but great music in personal close-up to be experienced by anyone.<\/p>\n

The performer sits with the audience as though in a large domestic setting, and direct connection comes through personality-revealing conversation alongside the music performance. The informality creates a bond shared among the audience.<\/p>\n

Each Interview Concerts celebrates its internationality and is creatively given its own presentation flavour, ambience and look. The feel is warm and inclusive. Seating is in the Round. The Ask A Question section is for the audience. They respond, react and interact in the Mystery Music Spot. \u00a0They can meet the artiste afterwards.<\/p>\n

Rhythmie co-conceived the new feature Mystery Music Spot and brings from her base in Cologne a head full of exciting solo piano music in a remarkable programme of unaccustomed power, stature and atmosphere, entitled \u2018Dancing Fires & Fragrances\u2019.<\/p>\n

There is Russian fairy-tale ballet music from Stravinsky\u2019s beloved \u2018The Firebird\u2019 in Agosti\u2019s transcription from the magical, mesmeric orchestral music. Another translation into piano comes from the highest French expert, Ravel \u2013 his own vivid ballroom costume drama, \u2018La Valse\u2019. Rhythmie\u2019s account of this startling piece caught experts\u2019 breath during the SIPC as she surmounted its multiple demands.<\/p>\n

She will bring alive songs, tunes, dances and fragrances in two extracts from the greatest Spanish piano music. Book 1 of \u2018Iberia\u2019 by Albeniz and, by his friend Granados, \u2018The Maiden and The Nightingale\u2019, from his suite \u2018Goyescas\u2019, inspired by the paintings of Goya and later to spawn an opera. These nostalgic, pictorial pieces, range from nocturne and evocation, through fandango, jota and zapateado, to a full-scale public parade in Seville.<\/p>\n

She will become the first person to play Haydn at The Interview Concerts. It will be his expansive abd masterly final Piano Sonata (No 52 in Eb), in which later we can revel in her rare ability to transmit and share the fun and teasing humour in Haydn. She plays him superbly.<\/p>\n

The St Paul\u2019s piano will be hitting heights on a scale not since Dinara Klinton\u2019s transcendent Liszt, Beethoven and Scarlatti two Junes ago. And among the Interview Concert surprises will be some Chinese, with which Rhythmie will return the international welcome Worthing will be giving her.<\/p>\n

Facebook Event Page<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/265960770677892\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Seats unreserved . Doors at 3.30pm. Ticket prices top at \u00a312 adult. Concessions down to \u00a31 for Under-19s. Available in person from St Paul\u2019s cafe-bar, or at seetickets.com<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.seetickets.com\/event\/rhythmie-wong-s-dancing-fires-and-fragrances-\/st-paul-s-worthing\/1254059<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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