Dimitry Ablogin Recital in the Orangerie , Darmstadt - 14th March 2025 - Chopin Gesellschaft in der BRD e.V.
As is always the case with this pianist, I am overcome with superlatives. He is one of the great period piano specialists but also has a commanding keyboard technique and deep musical insight that convinces completely on the modern instrument. Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Rondo à la Mazur in F major Op. 5 (1825–26) Mazurka de Chopin (1911) Edward Okuń (1872-1945) This work was written when Chopin was 16 (such a prodigious genius). He dedicated it to the Countess Alexandrine de Moriolles, the daughter of the Comte de Moriolles, who was the tutor to the adopted son of the Grand Duke Constantine, Governor of Warsaw. This rather unpleasant individual often requested Chopin to play for him at the Belvedere Palace. Unable to sleep, on winter nights he would ostentatiously send a sleigh drawn by four-horses harnessed abreast in the Russian style to collect the young pianist from his home. Schumann first heard the Rondo à la mazur in 1836, and he calle...