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“To be a piano accompanist requires a special degree of fortitude. It is not just that the job sometimes involves working with ego-driven soloists, but that misunderstanding seems to surround the role. Australia’s first Festival of Accompanists, convened by the Accompanists Guild of South Australia to celebrate its 25th year, did a heroic job in putting a lot straight. Most of all it exploded the myth that the pianist is merely there to provide unobtrusive, discreet support for the singer. One of the world’s most respected accompanists, Scottish pianist Malcolm Martineau, showed how abundantly wrong this view is. His playing projected as much personality as the singers’ performances, even stealing attention away at times. The festival’s centrepiece was an extraordinarily illuminating concert with Martineau and the distinguished New Zealand-born Samoan bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu. Their performance of Schubert and Brahms’s lieder was not about two artists combining as one unified musical personality, but about each musician bringing his own contribution to a song’s word and sound picture. Martineau’s playing was expressive and even extrovert; Lemalu was more intense and, at times, explosive. To have both elements side by side added compelling tension to Schubert’s bittersweet Der Wanderer an den Mond (The Wanderer Addresses the Moon), and in Brahms’s Verrat (Treachery), Lemalu’s snarling anger and Martineau’s magnified sense of drama made this horrifying little song about jealousy and murder even more powerful. There was humour, too, in their performances of Poulenc and Richard Rodney Bennett: both artists showed fleetness of foot and their ability to lighten the mood in an instant. The dynamic between the two artists was fantastically alive, and their timing immaculate.”

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