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| Pianist Dingdong Fiel |
Featuring:
Heliodoro
“Dingdong” Fiel II, piano
Programme:
Franz
Schubert
Moments
Musicaux No. 1 in C major, D 780 (Op. 94)
Moments
Musicaux No. 2 in A flat major, D 780 (Op. 94)
Moments
Musicaux No. 3 in F minor, D 780 (Op. 94)
Frédéric
Chopin
Prelude No. 10 in C
sharp minor, Op. 28 The Moth
Prelude No. 15 in D
flat major, Op. 28 Raindrop
Prelude No. 18 in F
minor, Op. 28 Suicide
Domenico
Scarlatti
Sonata in C major,
K. 159
Sonata in G major,
K. 13
Sergei
Rachmaninoff
Moment Musicaux No.
3 in B minor, Op. 16
Moment Musicaux No.
4 in E minor, Op. 16
Claude
Debussy
Préludes Book 2 No.
6 General Lavine, L 123
Préludes Book 2 No.
12 Feux d'artifice, L 123
Pianist
Heliodoro “Dingdong” Fiel II recently held a concert at the Grand Hall of the UST
Museum
Well,
I wouldn’t call it completely a return since Dingdong chose a programme
featuring pieces that were a departure from his usual, expected repertoire.
Playing a handful of Moments Musicaux by Franz Schubert and Rachmaninoff,
Dingdong showed a more introvert, introspective and somber side to his playing.
There were few attempts to showcase pyrotechnics and virtuosic brilliance but
they were contained and always drawn back to the relatively sedate mood that he
had set out for this concert.
I’ve
been to numerous solo piano performances, recitals and concerts and it was
surprising that all of the pieces for this evening, except for the Preludes by
Chopin were unfamiliar to me. I may have had the opportunity to listen to them
some time ago but I never took notice. If
the pieces by Schubert, a composer whose music I always find hard to relate to,
were played on the radio, I would've switched to a different station already.
The same also applies to the Scarlatti Sonatas that were performed that
evening. But a concert performance forces the audience to sit through the performance and listen to the pieces being played and this is an opportunity that I always welcome. And because of this, my knowledge and experience with various pieces in the piano repertoire has widened.
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| Dingdong Fiel being interviewed after the concert |
The two Preludes by Debussy were a surprise for me especially the very
humorously irreverent General Lavine, since
they showed another side of the French composer more known for his
impressionistic style. Also interesting was the way the pieces were sequenced
at the concert. Normally, the pieces are played chronologically with the oldest
one composed played first. But this time, Dingdong had the oldest pieces, the
two Scarlatti sonatas, open the second half of the concert setting the mood for
the subsequent Rachmaninoff pieces.
I
missed Dingdong when he was the music act during last year’s International Silent Film Festival. But for his encore, he performed an excerpt from the music
he composed for Greek Miracle, the
film from Greece
(obviously) that he scored during the festival. The evening was an eye and ear
opener for me not just in terms of how Dingdong played but also by how he
programmed the concert. It reminded me a lot of French pianist Pascal Rogé’s
concert here in the country back in 2010.
