Her interpretations divest the works from unnecessary mystery and decorations and they offer to the audience the bare emotion which pours out from them pure, direct, intense. They throw to the music a black and white light, which creates intense shadows and they present the works of music like pieces of sculpture
After the concert, while trying to figure out what did the solidity, the bravery, the mathematical strictness, but also the emotional severity of Karpodini reminded me of- all so suitable to Beethoven- I spontaneously thought of the interpretations of Gina Bachauer…
The PLG’s Young Artists week came to an ecstatic end with Messiaen’s “Chants de Terre et de Ciel” courtesy of soprano Ruby Hughes and pianist Lefki Karpodini