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»sensibel und gleichzeitig kraftvoll«

[13.09.2022 APA AUSTRIAN PRESS AGENCY]

»... ein großes musikalisches Talent ... In B-A-C-H, aber auch in den anderen Werken, fallen Dawidiuks technische Makellosigkeit und seine Beherrschung der zugrunde liegenden Struktur in Bezug auf den Ausdruck auf. So wie es auch eine kluge Balance zwischen Lamento und Distanz, Leichtigkeit und Schwere gibt.«

[9/2022 OPUS KLASSIEK / NL]

» ... denn dieser CD-Auftritt ist schlicht atemberaubend: innig und tief Bachs Adagio-Partien, intelligent und analytisch die Fugen, intellektuell weit gereift die Fantasien. Liszt hingegen jugendlich ungestüm, jedoch niemals marktschreierisch virtuos, mit einem vorzüglichen Legato.«

[11/2022 JOURNAL FRANKFURT]

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» ... Es ist ein ganz beachtliches CD-Debüt, das Aurel Dawidiuk hier vorlegt – auf alles Weitere darf man sich freuen!«

[20.11.2022 KLASSIK-HEUTE.DE]

» ... So if a sense of wonder and sheer joy needs to be a requirement for a classical pianist making his recording debut, then Aurel Dawidiuk can stand to attention.«

[31.12.2022 MARSHAL ROSENTHAL]

»Five stars: An unusually serious program that takes nothing away from a gifted young virtuoso«

[03/2023 FANFARE / HUNTLEY DENT]

The cover really says it all. Making music and talking about music is such fun: here Aurel Dawidiuk is clearly demonstrating on a tabletop how he would execute a Bach duet or a polyphonic passage by Liszt if he were sitting at the piano or the organ. Now aged only 22, he has learned to play both instruments with such mastery that the list of his competition successes and awards takes up a whole page; these range from multiple first places in the youth competition Jugend musiziert to the 2022 German Music Competition, which he won a few weeks ago.

For his recording debut, this young pianist brings together two composers who occupy prime positions in his musical universe. The first, Johann Sebastian Bach, is for him the "sacred lodestar" to which everything else is ultimately related; in the other, Franz Liszt, Dawidiuk discovers certain elective affinities or tastes in common. These include an obvious love of travel – one need only look at his concert and study schedules – plus the delight in musical invention and the desire to proclaim the richness of the art of music both on the piano and at the organ console.

Thus, on the one hand, Aurel Dawidiuk looks at the baroque master from the point of view of his virtuoso romantic devotee, while on the other hand he himself has his say with three not quite everyday items drawn from his inexhaustible repertoire: the Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, the Four Duets from the third part of the Clavierübung, the Fantasia in C minor and the unfinished Fugue are framed by Franz Liszt's mighty Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H and the perhaps even more astonishing Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen with their serene message: "What God does is done well" ...

This CD is issued on the ETERA label of the pianist Gabriele Leporatti, on whose releases we have already reported several times. A little touch marks this production as an auspicious début: in Etruscan mythology Thesan was the goddess of dawn and sunrise - and it is certainly not outlandish to understand this new release entirely in that light.

 Eckhardt van den Hoogen