11 April 2009 saw the DFP debut of rising French pianist Cedric Tiberghien in Haydn's Piano Concerto in D major. A BBC New Generation artist as well as a rising recording star for Hyperion and Harmonia Mundi, Tiberghien certainly lives up to the fine reputation that he is steadily garnering from the international music critics.
Prefaced by a short Haydn overture (La Fedelta premiata) which was also in D major, Tiberghien performed admirably with a light and classical touch and also an informed awareness of articulation and phrasing. The Haydn Piano Concerto emerged with a sprightliness. As an interpretation, it was on par with Leif Ove Ansdnes's concert performance here in KL with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra some years back.
The concert seemed over-long with Bruckner's massive Fifth Symphony programmed after the interval. This is my favourite Bruckner symphony - having heard Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin PO perform it in London in 1981. It was also good to hear a different interpretation from Kee Bakels this time, relative to Claus Peter Flor and the MPO's concert a few years before.
This time, there was more time for Bruckner's vistas of large symphonic sound to expand into the glorious DFP Hall. The performance was overall slower (but not sluggish) and also grander at the final coda than Flor's interpretation. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this concert immensely.
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