Kasparas Mikužis in Florence
‘A room with view resounding to the sounds of radiance and beauty’
A room with a view and a standing ovation for Kasparas Mikužis with a recital of Beethoven Ravel and fellow Lithuanian Leopold Godowsky
In the beautiful Harold Acton Library and with the mellow tones of an 1890 Bechstein Kasparas carved out Beethoven’s late ‘Pastoral’ sonata where poetry and dynamic drive were united with a scrupulous attention to Beethoven’s very intricate detail.
It was in the Ravel Miroirs that sumptuous refined sounds and technical mastery united to create the images of these five miniature tone poems with a magical palette of sounds.
Godowsky’s rarely played Java suite was the ideal partner to Ravel not only for it’s transcendental difficulty, but because Kasparas imbued it with the same fantasy and kaleidoscope of sounds which were of poetic beauty and scintillating brilliance.
Read more here at Christopher Axworthy’s blog
