We took a tour of Piano City Napoli 2013, pausing in some concerts of which we report some feelings.
- Institut Français - Palazzo Il Grenoble - 6 October 2013
French pianist and musicologist, Feriel Kaddour - graduated in l 'Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris - presented at the French Institute Grenoble, as part of Plan City Napoli 2013, a piano program that has covered over a century and a half of French and European music. Perhaps due to her dual nature as a musician and musicologist, the choice of an unusual piano path.
Delicate touch and stage presence, Kaddour followed the line that connects Couperin's eighteenth century (Les Lys naissants, Les Roseaux, Le Tic Toc Choc) in the late nineteenth / early twentieth century by Ravel (Sonatina) - who will dedicate a suite to his predecessor in 1917 ("The Tomb of Couperin"). At each change of author, a virtual contact is sought, almost a passing of the baton of a relay race with a subtle sense, an intertwining of more or less direct human relationships, pervaded by a bit of romanticism.
With Ravel his contemporaries enter the scene: Debussy (The Swallowed Cathedral, General Lavine) - with whom he reluctantly shared the title of protagonist of the "musical impressionism"Of the passage between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries -, Gabriel Fauré (Nocturne opus 33 n.1), Ravel's teacher for fourteen years and partly national reference for Debussy.
Un homage due to Naples is the Nobturator opus 31 n.1 by the Neapolitan (Capua 1856) Giuseppe Martucci, the only exception to the French choice. The sweetness of the nocturnal is naturally linked, almost by syllogism, to the Ballad opus 52 n.4 by Chopin, which adds a bit of sadness and melancholy to the finale.
Feriél Kaddour generally performs in Paris where he lives and works.
