Lithuanian pianist Joris Mikužis performs L'isle Joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) live at the Klaipėda Sea Festival 2022.

The mood of the piece suggests an enchanted landscape, both real and imaginary. As Paul Roberts said, “the real landscape was the island of Jersey, to which Debussy escaped for the summer of 1904 with Emma Bardac: a little prosaic perhaps when compared to Cythera, the mythical island of love in Watteau’s painting, but for Debussy and Emma, a joyous island nevertheless.” The fête galante genre is about love and hope, leisure and flirtation, beauty and elegance, in which wild beauty is not ignored but controlled, just as human desires should be. Debussy also inscribed certain pages of L'isle joyeuse manuscript with coded and even direct love messages for Emma: “these bars belong to Madame Bardac pp.m. (petite mienne = little darling) who dictated them to me one Tuesday in June 1904”.

Joris Mikužis (born 2006) is active both as a pianist and a visual artist with the focus on painting. A graduate of the Šilutė Arts School, he is currently studying at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Arts School in Vilnius. He is laureate of numerous national and international competitions in Lithuania and has recently made his orchestra debut, performing Keyboard Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 449 by W. A. Mozart with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.

Summer Piano Academy "Klaipėda Piano Masters"
Jūros šventė / Klaipėda Sea Festival, July 2022
Video production by Jonas Šopa
www.kpm.lt

свернуть