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It seems that during the final round Pan played with a great desire to get the prizes, though with no desire to show herself being a real musician. She played Tchaikovsky’s And Brahms’ Concertos. Though nobody could call her playing stylish.

Instead, her she played as if she was going to prove the famous idiom: “life is a struggle”. Pan struggled hard with herself, with her instrument, with the orchestra and nothing good came out of it. Just as nothing good came out of her enjoinment of technical side of performance. The tendency to a “gross” playing and desire to fill the hall with the sound turned out as a great pressure in the right hand and, finally, as a complete failure in terms of sound. Emotional strength and energy transformed to an obvious rudeness, “gross playing” – to hysteria. It should be noticed that all these is not typical for Pan and all that happened to her in the third round was probably because of she doesn’t have too much experience of playing in big halls.

20. Huang Bin (China)

Strange how this participant got to the third round. The jury might have remembered all of her victories on other international competitions. Bin didn’t seem to be interested with her own playing. Just as Pan, all the way through she has probably been thinking only about the prizes. And such commercial, businesslike performing couldn’t raise any positive emotions in the audience.

23. Alexander Trostyansky (Russia)

The fact of choosing such poorly known piece as Britten’s Concerto to play in the third round was a sort of surprise. From a certain point of view, to play Britten’s concerto is easier than to play, say, Brahms’. Trostyansky wasn’t thinking this way when he was choosing the program, indeed. Anyway, his Britten was pretty nice and almost interesting. Unfortunately, this violinist lacks some musical freshness, and this became especially true when he started to play Tchaikovsky. His performance of this music was full of musical cliches, and he obviously lacked sound capabilities. A pretty boring performance was a result of all that, which couldn’t be compared with what how he looked at the previous rounds.

30. Nikolai Sachenko (Russia)

Sachenko is not as experienced as some of his colleagues in the third round, and that’s obviously heard in his performance. His playing is not as clear technically as it could be. Though he has got a rather good sound, and this became even more obvious comparing to Alexander Trostyansky. Anyway, Sachenko’s all in all playing doesn’t give him a hope for some of higher prizes.

42. Latisa Honda-Rosenberg (Germany)

This contestant performance showed that there is at least one participant in the final round who can surely pretend to get the first prize – and this is Ms. Rosenberg. Tchaikovsky’s Concerto was played with a great power. As of now, maestro Gorenstein’s orchestra wasn’t playing good enough. Though in this case the band had no choice but to try to follow the contestant. Tchaikovsky’s Concerto was bravuraous and goodly non-academic, which is very hard to achieve. In the other hand, Rosenberg’s playing sometimes lacked philosophic richness, though it can easily be excused for she really made a holiday atmosphere with her playing.

All in all, Rosenberg was marvelous and, once again, she can surely pretend to be a first prize winner.

53. Natasha Lomeiko (Great Britain)

Compared to the second round Lomeiko played really bad. There were too many technical faults and absolute lack of musical ideas made her playing in the final round nearly the biggest disappointment on the competition.

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