Gabriele Sutkute at Steinway Hall – passion and power
‘Passion and power in Gabrielė Sutkutė’s New Artist Recital at the Steinway Hall. Her complete technical freedom, acute musical intuition and impeccable sense of style made her performance an exhilarating experience for the audience.
First on the programme was Haydn’s Fantasia in C major, the main theme of which is a folk song ‘the farmer’s wife had lost her cat’, as was eloquently explained by Gabrielė in her introduction.This was masterfully played with an impish sense of humour, stylishly articulated and with great rhythmic drive.
A strong contrast was achieved at the start of Bartok’s suite ‘Out of doors’. Gabrielė created vivid sonic pictures full of longing and powerful outbursts.
