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MASSIMO GON PLAYS CHOPIN

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Code: CVLD 271

Author: Chopin
Performer: Massimo Gon
Duration: 69:41
Support: cd
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays the big technological evolution allows to produce virtually perfect albums, devoid of any technical error. This important turning implies that musicians too are inclined to privilege the coldness of interpretations technically perfect, but inevitably impoverished of a more unitary and ample vision of the composition, which represents the essence itself of the author’s musical message.
A great aesthete and critic, Walter Benjamin, in his “L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica”, just underlines the loss of the “hic et nunc” ( trans.: here and now) that is the unpredictability of the performance, which occurs only one time, with all the unknown aspects, which however get us directly to the essence of Art’s core itself.
Regarding Chopin, I have always been fascinated and influenced by the recordings of early twentieth century (Friedman, Hofmann, Moiseiwitsch and Cortot), still bonded to an almost “handmade” technology.
In those performances one distinctly perceives the sense of immediacy, of urgency and of “precariousness”, all expressions of a reality connected to an instant and not arranged in order to represent reference standards .
On the interpretative level , all that is expressed with a continuous surprise, with sudden movements, lightings and downfalls, and with a particular attention applied to the sound, always “speaking” and able itself to reveal the elusive secret of these masterpieces.
I tried to privilege the more lyrical, intimate and endearing aspect, even at the expence of the more daring and exquisitely virtuous aspect, that is also present but it isn’t the more important element.
I therefore wish that this CD could communicate to the listener the richness of musical intuitions and of composition hints, as well as the variety of moods and emotions with which these pieces are inwrought.

MASSIMO GON
Massimo Gon started playing the piano when he was 5 years old.
He studied at the Music Academy "Giuseppe Tartini" in Trieste with Luciano Gante. After the diploma, for which he was awarded a special mention, he studied with Vincenzo Vitale in Naples for a short period and subsequently attended Nikita Magaloff's summer courses in Geneva. Following a series of highly praised preformances in national and international competition (Premio Venezia, Cata Monti di Trieste, La Spezia, Osimo and Stresa and "Viotti"), he was invited to perform in some of the most important concert venues in Italy (teatro alla Scala, Teatro Regio di Torino, La Fenice di venezia, Filarmonica Romana, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Massimo di Palermo), in several European capitals (Moscow, St.Petersburg, Budapest, Lyubyana, Brussels), in the USA and in South America. He partecipated to several international festivals. He has recorded for the Brussels-based label Empire Master Sound and has published a CD for Velut Luna with the integral cycle of Liszt’s 12 Grand Etudes and for Rainbow Classic Records.
He is a teacher at the Music Academy “Giuseppe Tartini” of Trieste and is regularly invited to give Master Classes (Cajkovskij Music Academy of Moscow and the Liszt Academy of Budapest).
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