Misha Kaploukhii at the Razumovsky Academy – technical mastery with poetic sensitivity
It is on Fou Ts”ong’s magnificent Steinway D that Misha Kaploukhii kept us enraptured with playing of astonishing assurance , technical mastery and poetic sensitivity.
It was in Messiaen ,though , that one could feel the presence of Ts’ong as this young man played the pungent heart rending dissonances with a kaleidoscope of colours. This was a kiss blessed by the Gods as the disarming simplicity of the opening was elaborated with sounds that I doubt have been heard on this piano since the most eclectic of poetic masters left us during the Covid epidemic.
