MÛZA RUBACKYTE |
INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES :
Mûza Rubackyté is an accomplished artiste who has
something important to say about the music she plays which surely lead
her name becoming far better known in very near future. The defining
point of Mûza Rubackyté’s Huston concert was her reading
of Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata. It was a rare case when refined
musical tastes, an incisive understanding of musical form, and fully
developped technique merged almost perfectly. The WIGMORE HALL was alive with
virility of her performance. A rare treat of a rare talent. Such musicality : Almost the
entire program had some link with Faust legend, with spirits and
demons, and emerged in some breath-taking playing which had the
audience on the edge of their seats for much of time. JERSEY-UK FEB 1997 NEWPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL saved the
best pianist for the last. That would be Lithuanian Mûza
Rubackyté, who dazzled the audiences here last summer and who
was back for another lesson in just how the piano should be played. THE
PROVIDENCE-USA JULY 1996 She let loose the full force of
her temperament, playing with complete abandon and finally humor. Her
huge intrepid performances, fulminating and girlishly whimsical by
turns, brought people shouting to their feet at the end of each piece Were the gods angered that a mere
mortal could play the piano so well ? No just a fireworks display in
the skies over Rosecliff, as Lithuanian pianist Mûza
Rubackyté made her american debut. She turned out to be the real
thing, though, a pianist with a ferocious technique, coupled with the
soul of poet. Mûza Rubackyté is
clearly a musician of rare talent, as is evident also from her
transcription of the three extant movements of Ciurlionis's String
Quartet. The present performance are
abreath with that spirit, bringing forcefully to mind THE YOUNG
ARGERICH IN CHOPIN... Now hearing MÛZA RUBACKYTÉ, an
artist of phenomenal powers who must be counted among the most gifted
pianists of her generation...Turning up amid the plethora of mediocre
recitals by young hopefuls attempting to recreate The Legend,
Rubackyté's recent LISZT program revealed the astounding and
"consistent combination of power and shimmer, intensity and radiance,
élan, and urbanity" comprising her unique sound -a sort of
prismatically tinted ecstasy- which, with a present issues, suggests
that she may be a Scriabin interpreter of the first order.
Enthusiastically Recommended MÛZA RUBACKYTÉ has
both a commending virtuoso technique to cope with the occasional
eruption of strongest feelings and a keen sense of the elegiac poetry
that the music calls for. CDRewiew, UK, July 1994 Here is something
remarkable -the lightning reflexes of a LAZAR BERMAN wedded to the
tonal finess of a BARENBOIM or BOLET in a sultry, unknown lithuanian
beauty. MÛZA RUBACKYTÉ IS A BORN LISZT PLAYER with an
instinctive grasp of the way that flourishes and fioriture, rippling
arpeggios, tremolos, and massive chords call for color...
Enthusiastically Recommended No barnstroming here. MÛZA
RUBACKYTÉ's selfless poetry makes Liszt even more exciting. An
excellent Lithuanian pianist, MÛZA RUBACKYTÉ is an
accomplished virtuoso who makes no show of virtuosity. Even in the
formidable Erlkönig, bravura is entirely subordinated to musical
gesture, with exciting and chilling results. No that she lacks
intensity. In the transcription of Die junge Nonne and Gretchen am
Spinnrade she can make flesh creep. |