Daniel Oren and Yoav Levanon: returns and debuts at the Teatro di San Carlo with Beethoven and Chopin
Thirty-five years had passed since Daniel Oren’s debut at the San Carlo theatre, which has had him as permanent orchestra leader in 1984-85; the enfant prodige, who initiated his international concerts in 2010 at the Carnegie Hall in New York, debuted in Naples with this performance.
Without showing any hesitation, Levanon performed at the San Carlo the virtuous and Romantic 1st concert by Fryderyk Chopin.
We must praise the energy and the brilliant musicality of the execution, even if Oren’s interpretation of Beethoven is perhaps too emotionally similar to young Levanon’s interpretation of Chopin.
Yoav Levanon’s tightness of movements and rigidity contrasts with his fluid touch and impressive musical talent.
Despite our position – not the most favorable to stare at the stage – we noticed that the prodigy boy rotates his wrist, a trait of Russian and East European style brought to notoriety by György Sándor and Paul Badura-Skoda. Chapeau.
The piano plays like a percussion instrument, with no crescendo; the legato between the notes happens in diminuendo in order not to overpower the intensity of the previous, decreasing note. It’s an almost intuitive acoustic rule, but many people still see it as an enigma.
Levanon demonstrates an understanding and rapidly enchants the audience of the San Carlo theatre, which on December 3rd, 2015 was filled with young, first-timers.
The encore was remarkable: Franz Liszt’s Parafrasi from the Rigoletto. See (and listen) to you soon, Oren and Levanon: Erev Tov.
4. December 2015