Mikhail Farcossà

"Speaking about Mikhail as a pianist comes naturally to me. I only need to compare him with the way I experience the piano myself, with the countless hours spent on the Preludes and Fugues, the Scherzo, the Transcendental Études. The contrast is immediate: his calmness in performance, his almost marble-like posture, the intensity of a profound present that I had never experienced before, set against my own slow and inadequate hands. A majestic chorale, an imperiously silent pianissimo. It is a comparison that simply cannot stand, not even when placing him alongside many internationally acclaimed pianists. To describe what I feel when I listen to him, my thoughts return to the words of one of Umberto Bindi’s unforgettable songs: Il nostro concerto. “Ovunque sei, se ascolterai, accanto a te mi troverai…” In those words I find the same intensity I hear in every note he plays: something impossible, unattainable, and yet capable of astonishing me every single time.That is how I would describe Mikhail: a breath that becomes a presence, a melody that enters the heart and continues to resonate, a storm that reminds us that study alone is not enough to reach that place. Because, at a certain point, breath itself disappears, and only the music remains. The real music."

译自英文

"谈论作为钢琴家的 Mikhail，对我来说是很自然的事。我只需把他与我自己体验钢琴的方式相比，与我在前奏曲与赋格、谐谑曲、超技练习曲上花费的无数时光相比。反差立刻显现：他演奏时的沉静，几乎如大理石般的姿态，一种我此前从未体验过的深沉当下的强度，对照着我自己迟缓而力不从心的双手。庄严的众赞歌，一个威严而静默的极弱音。这是一种根本无法成立的比较，即使把他与众多享誉国际的钢琴家并列也是如此。为了描述我聆听他时的感受，我的思绪回到 Umberto Bindi 一首令人难忘的歌曲 Il nostro concerto 的歌词： “Ovunque sei, se ascolterai, accanto a te mi troverai…” 在这些词句中，我找到了在他弹奏的每一个音符里所听到的同样的强度：某种不可能、无法企及，却每一次都能令我惊叹的东西。我会这样描述 Mikhail：一缕化为存在的气息，一段进入心灵并持续回响的旋律，一场提醒我们仅靠学习不足以抵达那里的风暴。因为到了某个时刻，连气息本身也消失了，只剩下音乐。真正的音乐。"

"I know nothing about classical music, but watching Mikhail play is completely hypnotic. He brings a mix of power and delicacy to the piano that leaves a complete outsider like me speechless. I don’t know how to judge technique or interpret a score, but I know when something makes me stop scrolling, forget everything else, and just watch. That’s exactly what happens every time I hear him play. It doesn’t feel distant or old fashioned the way I always imagined classical music would. It feels alive, intense, and surprisingly emotional. If someone like me, who has never really listened to this kind of music, can be drawn in so easily, I think that says a lot about the kind of artist he is."

译自英文

"我对古典音乐一无所知，但看 Mikhail 弹琴完全令人着迷。他为钢琴带来一种力量与细腻的交融，让我这样一个彻头彻尾的门外汉哑口无言。我不懂如何评判技巧或解读乐谱，但我知道什么东西能让我停止刷屏、忘掉一切、只是静静地看。每次听他弹奏，恰恰就是这样。它并不像我一直想象中的古典音乐那样遥远或过时。它是鲜活的、强烈的，而且出人意料地动人。如果像我这样从未真正听过这类音乐的人都能如此轻易地被吸引，我想这足以说明他是怎样的一位艺术家。"

"Horowitz revived. Listening and watching, everything natural - it's shocking. There is no trace of effort, yet every note is perfectly sculpted. He doesn't just play the music - he channels it, with a freedom and clarity reminiscent of the great masters. It's as if Horowitz himself were reborn, not in imitation, but in pure artistic essence."

译自英文

"Horowitz 再世。听着、看着，一切都那么自然——令人震撼。毫无费力的痕迹，却每一个音符都雕琢得完美无瑕。他不只是在演奏音乐——他让音乐从自己身上流淌而出，那种自由与清晰令人想起伟大的大师们。仿佛 Horowitz 本人重生了，不是模仿，而是以纯粹的艺术本质。"

"Farcossà is not the talented young pianist or the good performer, he is something more, something creative, imaginative and demonic... his expressiveness, in my opinion, today has no comparison., despite his young age he is one with music, to listening to him you would never think that such maturity can spring from a twenty-year-old, he is an artist with a capital A, who through composers of any era transmits the fifth essence of pure art"

译自英文

"Farcossà 不是那个有天赋的年轻钢琴家，也不是那个出色的演奏者，他是更多的东西，是某种富有创造力、想象力而又带着魔性的存在……在我看来，他的表现力在今天无人能及；尽管年纪轻轻，他与音乐已融为一体；听他演奏，你绝不会想到如此的成熟竟出自一个二十岁的年轻人。他是一位真正意义上的艺术家，通过各个时代的作曲家传递纯粹艺术的精髓"

"His sound is the "old masters sound," the feelings are the same. The touch, the depth, the control - it all evokes a timeless elegance that is rarely heard today. There's a sincerity and wisdom in his playing that speaks beyond his age, echoing the nuances of pianists from a bygone golden era."

译自英文

"他的声音是“老大师的声音”，情感也是一样的。触键、深度、控制——这一切都唤起一种今天难得一闻的永恒优雅。他的演奏中有一种超越其年龄的真诚与智慧，回响着一个逝去的黄金时代钢琴家们的细腻韵味。"