István I. Székely plays with a sublime delivery that in his concerts goes beyond anything physical and levitates above the keyboard as if his fingers did not need to touch the keys. It is mastery that allows him to fully master technique and performance…… the emotions that Székely's performances convey are timeless and clean. There is no impurity. It is something so difficult to achieve, so experiencing it is amazing. No surprise, no doubts, no collisions with the scores or with the authors. There is excitement and mystery. The mystery of life is that it is sometimes hidden and that it arises here to wrap up the interpretation, without glazes or ties. And it is life, so inexorably linked to death, which is in each breath, each trace of breathed air that the notes leave. The beautiful and absolute notes that say everything when they are played with the depth of one, who for a moment is next to the composer, in another era, and next to the viewer, in the present moment, simultaneously, in a magical transposition. It is absolute mastery. The absolute delicacy. This is a concert by István I. Székely.
Francesc Sempere,
Director Auditori de la MediterrĂ nia
