TRANSLATIONReview - Premiere Performance
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World premiere on the Casparides organ
By Monika Freisel (Photo) The
versatile musician Robert Pobitschka presented
"Speculations on Shostakovich" in Waidhofen/Thaya. The
Casparides organ in the parish church of Waidhofen has 36 stops,
and quite a few of them were employed by the pianist, organist,
and composer Robert Pobitschka in his concert "Organ by
Candlelight" on Sunday evening. The
versatile musician opened the soirée with Johann Sebastian
Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in C Major," light-footed,
almost playful at the beginning, followed by rich sounds and
full chords that, in the excellent acoustics of the church, gave
the impression that an entire orchestra was playing. In the
rarely performed "Requiem for Organ Solo" by Franz
Liszt, Pobitschka allowed the initially restrained sounds to
swell into full dynamics, with powerful, deep, space-filling
runs causing the air to vibrate, until the hopeful concluding
sequences gradually faded away in piano. As
one of the highlights of the concert, Robert Pobitschka offered
the audience the world premiere of his composition 'Conjectures
on Shostakovich,' in which he shaped the inner state of the
Russian composer—who lived for years in fear of death under
the Stalinist regime—into music, metaphorically transforming
his sense of threat, fears, and dark visions of the future into
intense sonic visions, immersing the listeners in the realm of
contemporary music. In
Franz Liszt's "Angelus," Pobitschka shifted with high
sensitivity from gentle relaxation and calm sequences of tones
to restrained surging chords. Fundamentally dynamic was the
praise to God, and at the end, there was a return to meditative
contemplation.
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