Quite so. Think of the great violinist David Oistrakh, and the pianists Emil Gilels and Shura Cherkassky; think of George Gershwin’s parents and Bob Dylan’s grandparents. All hailed from buzzingly cosmopolitan Odessa, now suffering daily bombardment on the shores of the Black Sea.
Only one of the seven composers whose works she played is still alive – Valentin Silvestrov, a celebrated protester against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and now a political refugee in Berlin. And as we heard, his music – which was initially densely experimental – has become progressively more refined and intimate over the years.
Fingerhut’s grandfather was born in Odess (Photo: Darius Weinberg/Wigmore Hall) square BOOKS FEATURES The Holocaust survivor whose musical talent saved her life
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Ukraine’s inextinguishable fighting spirit was much in evidence here, but one other thing that struck me was the way these pieces displayed echoes of better-known composers who didn’t have to work in a political void. I heard hints of Liszt, Debussy, and Rachmaninov, not because they had been plagiarised, but because those composers were aesthetically cognate with their Ukrainian counterparts.
It isn’t often that a single concert can reveal an unknown musical world, but the Wigmore Hall is to be congratulated for doing just that.
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