2023-05-29 09:00:00
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CHRONIC. Adulated, reviled, he disappeared and reappeared. At 64, how is Ivo Pogorelich, who is starting a world tour in June 2023?
Par Olivier Bellamy
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C’is a ritual that could become a Barthes mythology. As the audience silently enters the pale room, the man who probes the low register of the piano, with his bear paws, a cap on his head, a mask over his mouth and nose, a scarf around his neck, is not a chilly tuner. It is the Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich himself who is taming the beast he will soon face. He does not warm up like a simple sportsman or his unfortunate colleagues who do not have his huge fingers. Head in the mouth of the monster, he tames the unknown specimen of a well-known race, caresses his black and white teeth, mixes his breath with his. Montaigne would say that he stabilizes “the plate” to remain in control of his balance, whatever the reactions of…
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