Press
21. 12. 2009
Classical Music in Lodi: Anika Vavic Warms her Audience with Haydn Sonatas
Anika Vavic completed the emotional changes [in the Beethoven Sonata] without forcing, with noble phrasing, both naturally and unpredictably.
[...] An uplifting encounter with a refined and always subtle and honest piano-playing, which requires only little use of the pedal. The pianist treated the melodic lines, which she interwove with an admirable sense of differentiation and a narrative spirit, almost lovingly. The program choices also spoke of intelligence [...]: two Haydn sonatas framed the pulsating Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 3 and Prokofiev's "megalithic" sixth Sonata Op. 83. [...]
Right from the start of the spring-like Sonata in D-Major Hob. XVI, Anika Vavic seemed to delve into the keyboard with both hands, giving its noble geometry a substance that does justice to its language and feeling. [...]
Anika Vavic completed the emotional changes [in the Beethoven Sonata] without forcing, with noble phrasing, both naturally and unpredictably. [...]
[Prokofiev's Sonata in A-Major is] corrosive and lyrical [...], and it was especially in these suspended areas of dreams and tranquility, the armed peace before the final inflammatory Perpetuum mobile, where Anika Vavic signed her name clearly to one of the most beautiful performances in recent memory at the Teatro alle Vigne.
Translation: Alexa Nieschlag