Elena Vorotko co artistic director of the KT writes:

‘Passion and power in Gabrielė Sutkutė’s New Artist Recital at the Steinway Hall. Her complete technical freedom, acute musical intuition and impeccable sense of style made her performance an exhilarating experience for the audience.

First on the programme was Haydn’s Fantasia in C major, the main theme of which is a folk song ‘the farmer’s wife had lost her cat’, as was eloquently explained by Gabrielė in her introduction.This was masterfully played with an impish sense of humour, stylishly articulated and with great rhythmic drive.
A strong contrast was achieved at the start of Bartok’s suite ‘Out of doors’. Gabrielė created vivid sonic pictures full of longing and powerful outbursts

In Scriabin’s 2nd Piano Sonata Gabrielė found yet another, totally different soundscape. A warmer and more velvety sound created mesmerising moments of delicate lyricism.The powerful and unpredictable second movement was brilliantly executed, with great ease and yet total involvement in the musical narrative.
Rachmaninov’s 3 Etudes Tableaux revealed yet another, distinctive sonic palette with rich sonorities with a multitude of colours and effects. Seemless phrases and heart-wrenching lyricism contrasted with uncompromising virtuosity and brilliant polyphonic layering of textures. If that was not enough, Gabrielė finished her recital with Ravel’s ‘Oiseaux Tristes’ and ‘La Valse’. Here she created much more transparent, ‘glassy’ sonorities, so well suited for French repertoire. With a perfect sense of musical timing she achieved a moving rendition of the saddest of birds. La Valse showed off her total command of the instrument in this fiendish and highly complex virtuosic arrangement of a large scale orchestral work. The audience were transfixed by the beauty of sonorities Gabrielė created as well as the fantastic power of her musical conviction. A standing ovation followed as exhilarated listeners applauded this young star’s triumph.’ Elena Vorotko

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