“Periscopes” Premiere in London
Pianist Gila Goldstein has premiered “Periscopes” for solo piano in London’s South Bank Center on March 31, 2011
“A more impressionistic neo-Debussyesque and jazz-influenced idiom coloured Periscopes, a set of piano miniatures composed in 2010 by Lior Navok, here receiving its world première performed with finely honed shading and flowing impetus by the USA-based Israeli pianist Gila Goldstein. Its Schumannesque contrasts between the pithy musical vignettes explore prelude-like textures, eschewing the harsh dissonances of discontinuities, creating an idealised set of musical images, each of which ended as if in mid-flow, as if awakening from a dream. In its present form, eight of the full twelve movements were presented.”
Malcolm Miller
Daily Classical Music
