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Listening to Rafal-Alexandre Luszczewski

I went for a concert on September 11 that was held to commemorate 50 years of Indo-Polish diplomatic relations, and 70 years of the establishment of the Polish Consulate in Bombay.I don’t often go for concerts like this one but I’m glad that I did go for this one. The concert, which was to help promote Indo-Polish ties, was by a pianist called Rafal-Alexandre Luszczewski who made debut in the international area at the age of 16 with the Tokyo Symphony. Apart from being one of the best-structured concerts I’ve gone for in a long time, Luszczewski’s playing was brilliant. He’s exceptionally talented, and the evening turned out to be one of the best I’ve had in the recent past.In the first part of the programme, he took the audience on a Journey through Europe. Luszczewski began with a Prelude, Fugue and variation in B minor (Op. 18) by Cesar Franck (1822 – 1890), a Belgian composer who spent a large amount of time at Paris.A fugue is a piece which is structured in a subject-answer form,