by admin | Dec 1, 2019 | IFR, Karlskrona, Sweden
That Leonard Bernstein’s piano version of his friend, Aaron Copland’s picture of dance halls in the 1930s, El Salon Mexico should have appeared twice in the same day in Karlskrona was a coincidence waiting to happen. Julia Marin had heard Peter Jablonski play it in Bucharest a year ago and immediately decided she must add it to her repertoire. She has, very successfully, though playing it at lunchtime before her inspirer was due to tackle it in the evening was daring…
by admin | Nov 18, 2019 | IFR, Karlskrona, Sweden
A showcase is not a competition – all four young pianists playing in Karlskrona were very fine and Peter Jablonski would not have picked them for his first festival otherwise – but comparisons are inevitable. In this daytime concert each had half an hour to demonstrate their musicianship and two proved to be exceptional…
by admin | Nov 11, 2019 | IFR, Karlskrona, Sweden
The delightful thing about instituting a festival of your own is that you can programme and schedule as eccentrically as you like. Peter Jablonski is anyway an unconventional virtuoso. He likes experiments and is happy to take risks on repertoire and people…
