I heard the first sounds of Andante spianato G major and felt the deep spiritual emotion shake me. There has been a cry – 1 that reaches inaccessible areas of the soul all day. Piotr Pawlak plays mildly and with a sense and expressively. Just as Frederick Chopin himself defined the perfect of performance. Polish semi-finalist of the ongoing Chopin Competition is an inspired artist who can become 1 with Music. Thanks to him, Polishness, which he cursed in his compositions Chopin, arises again, and we are fortunate to witness this event. Why is his soul so beautiful? I will take the hazard of conjecture—undeprived of the evidence—that its binder is simply a deep relationship... with the Creator and the First Mover of all Beauty.
When I started listening to Peter Pawlak's concert, I wasn't certain I had adequate tears to perceive to the end... And the only words I could think of were the words of Old Man from Liberation Stanislaw Wyspiański, specifically from the beautiful monologue about “the Church of Polish Thought”, who always returns to me in uncommon and priceless moments of emotion of Polishness, which for a minute ceases to be just a memory:
Here you can cry – and no teardrop will be forgotten. Rejoice—and no joy will be alone. You are surrounded by Poland, immortal land. – Open your eyes, my daughters, – see, see, see, and the silence of your mouth shall be your golden armor...
Only alternatively of “see”, let us put “listen.” Listen, listen, listen...
Sounds of Beauty and Love
There are groups and places where small details tell more. Where rituals are performed according to strict rules and unwritten customs, any deviation from the norm becomes an event. specified an event was the minute erstwhile Peter Pawlak had not yet made his last sounds Allegro de concert A major op. 46, and the audience couldn't hold and started applauding. The rules of the performance hall were violated due to the fact that the delight was besides large to keep him in the carbes of the savoir-vivre. There have been standing ovations with shouts of enthusiasm, so that for a minute the performance hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw resembled a stone star concert.
What is the origin of this phenomenon? Did Peter Pawlak offer any incredibly bold and Revolutionary interpretation? Not at all. The enthusiasm was so large due to the fact that Peter Pawlak played Chopin. And the word played – contrary to grammar principles – should be written with a capital letter. His works were painted before our eyes by all that in Chopin's music constitutes this "Ark of the Covenant" – not only "between the past and the younger years", as Mickiewicz wrote, but between our planet and the planet of Polishness, which reaches to the ceiling of beauty so universal that 1 would like to see the thing written in the heart of the Lord of Creation.
Concerts are broadcast on the YouTube channel of the competition organizer – the National Institute of Fryderyk Chopin (Chopin Institute). erstwhile we turn on the performance of Piotr Pawlak on 11 October, we will see that a separate “concert” takes place in comments. This is the minute erstwhile the thing is so beautiful that it does not end with the ending, but it kind of reflects, radiates and continues to grow in the consequence of the audience. I will quote a fistful of comments to give back the temper that prevailed after the performance.
Our National Treasure.
He's CHOPIN. [‘He is Chopin’]
I feel Polish in this game. Our sensitivity of feeling. That's it!
There are people who play perfectly, like a machine. There are besides people who are about specified an invisible degree higher at which the brain game begins to paint images. Here it was. I want at least the 3rd stage, due to the fact that this performance was brilliant, moving and just so close, Polish, Chopinian. Bravo!
Peter is the best Chopin since Blechacz. [‘Peter is the best Chopin since Blechacz’]
People can be divided into 3 types: those that play notes, those that do music and those that do magic from music. Peter plays Chopin mystically!
I want Mr. Piotr Pawlak the success he hops for. I tuned in spontaneously to the live broadcast and was overwhelmed by the highest level of artistry, clarity, and precision displayed by all the performers. Piotr’s interpretation, however, Went far beyond method brilliance, Shining with a uniquely convincing and inspired musicality in the actual spirit of Chopin. With his performance of the Allegro de Concert, he set a fresh standard. [I want Mr Peter Pawlak the success he hopes for. I spontaneously switched on the live broadcast and was impressed by the highest level of artistic clarity and precision presented by all performers. But Peter’s explanation went far beyond the limits of method brilliance, glistening with exceptionally convincing and inspiring musicality, in the actual spirit of Chopin. With his performance Allegro de performance set a fresh standard.]
Mr.Piotr plays with specified lightness as he presents his own songs to the audience, not the competition repertoire – there is something unique, elusive in his game – another dimension of experiencing music. It's like he invited me to his planet for a while and showed the beauty he himself experiences playing.
The music of Chopin is heard in a tiny Austrian village. I have a telephone in my pocket and I'm raking leaves, listening to a beautiful concert.
この方のポロネーズの前には
誰のポロネーズも色あせて見えます
ああこれがこれがポロネーズ なんだ!
ショパンの音楽これだったんだ!
このリズムの進め方の絶妙さ
上に乗った軽妙なキラキラ
かしこも味わい深く私が初めて聞くものです
本当に感動です感激です
本当のショパンを聞かせてくださってありがとうございます
この方の演奏に出会えたのは本当に奇跡だと思います
どうぞ 本選まですすまれて
コンチェルトを聞かせてください [This polonaise eclipses all another polonaises. Ah, that's polonaise! Polish music. That's Chopin's music! Exquisite rhythmic progression. Light on the top. Everything's so tasteful, I've never heard anything like it before. I'm truly touched and profoundly moved. Thank you for letting us hear the real Chopin. I think it's a real miracle that I could experience the performance of that person. delight come to the final and let us hear your performance again.]
素晴らしい演奏です。感動して涙が出ました。 [It was a large performance. I'm moved to tears.]
Thank you, Mr Peter, for this wind between willows and shining summertime sun between sounds and longing for something fleeting and loved. You paint sounds great. This is Chopin.
Quoting all these comments, I point out that this is not a choice of the best, the most beautiful or the most touching – it is simply the first comments from the shore and let it talk for itself. There are hundreds of them, and most are filled with these words.
Artist close God
Piotr Pawlak drew attention not only to the mystical almost maestry of his performance. The cameras showed how behind the scenes he prays with the rosary in his hand, after which he performs the sign of the cross before going to the stage. With these gestures before my eyes, I was glad erstwhile I met respective comments from people who said they had the chance to get to know Gdansk music. let me to return the voice to the net audience.
And to think he was an organist in my church and I could perceive for free all Sunday. Cossack.
He's a wonderful man. A very spiritual man. My daughter and son-in-law Peter know... my daughter claims to be a contemporary Chopin...
Yes, and a large mathematician, he plays organ and runs a school at the parish of Saint Teresa from the baby Jesus in Gdańsk.
Mr. Piotr was the organist at the church, and you could list to him for free at the Sunday Mass. And the winners of mathematical Olympiads. He is simply a wonderful person, very faithful, we love him! [“Mr Peter was an organist in the church and could be listened to for free during Sunday Mass. And a winner of the mathematical Olympics. He is simply a wonderful person, very believing, we love him!”]
Taking part in the Chopin Competition in 2021, Piotr Pawlak admitted to praying before all performance. – Even if there's very small time to go onstage, I usually get over it and I ask God to support me in this game. – he said. – What we do as musicians is an utmost experience, and we frequently feel that we may not be able to handle ourselves. I know I have God's support in this situation. It calms me down. I entrust my performance to him so that what he planned for me will happen. We don't truly know what's best for us. Whether we request a performance that opens up a fresh artistic door or a performance that forces us to work or gives us a lesson in humility. I believe that God is preparing a way for me that I will slow learn – he added.
And, ladies and gentlemen, you can hear it. Paul's interpretations uncover this kind of beauty, which belongs to the natural planet and not to the supernatural, but is transcendent in its own way. How the beauty of creation is simply a reflection of a beautiful creator, so art – thanks to the actual and mysterious in its essence mimesis – becomes a mirror of the transcendental, which is beauty, lifting us at the same time outside and above It's all that can divide us on the basis of secondary differences. The beauty that sounded in Piotr Pawlak's performance is the timeless beauty of Poland, which is what is most wonderful at the interface of our native nature, our national soul and... this Source, where it all comes from.
Thanking Mr. Piotr for his exceptional performance, I can only join the best wishes for the semi-final phase and the final concerts starting on Saturday. But regardless of his standing on the podium, Pawlak has already accomplished almost impossible – miraculously, and so reserved for geniuses he touched the strings of this Polishness, which remains innocent and "clean as if placed by the wing of angels" (as Ernest Bryll wrote) and which is indeed the last hope of overcoming what is evil: betrayal, hatred and even worse – indifference.
Filip Obara
“Without you, my dear, I would be dead—like a pig!” How Chopin accepted the Lord Jesus before his death [175th anniversary of death]
