Tamas Szigyarto “Fragments”

Like dots being connected through the footsteps, Fragments finds thirteen piano vignettes splashed across times and spaces joining together in a continuous narrative. Written and performed by St. Petersburg pianist/composer Tamas Szigyarto, between 2019 and 2020 (except for “Enigmatic”), each piano piece takes on a different shade of contemplation, whether for it to be poetic or emotional, melancholy or restrained.

“This music serves to me as homage and a bridge to two cities where I spent the last 10 years, London and Saint-Petersburg,” said the artist, “Each movement is written in one of them and almost every piece carries images and mood of these cities that are so dear to my heart.”

Szigyarto’s music piano music explores an intricate blend of impressionism and neo-classical, paying homages to Ravel, Copland, Banevish, and Debussy. Each piece in Fragments has a certain familiarity to them as if they have existed for a long time, or have traveled or grown from a known path, but Szigyarto puts a personal touch in them that makes them uniquely different — a spark of warmth that speaks directly to your heart and soul.

The reflective nature of Fragments always manages to take you somewhere deep and personal. It gently nourishes your heart and calms your mind. Through the journeys imprinted in the sound of each piano piece, they connect and evoke a moment of vulnerability and deep thinking.

Tamas Szigyarto’s music is the perfect background for a time alone with yourself, but at the time, it’s underrated to be just the background. Like the nuance and kaleidoscopic nature, there’s more to Fragments that is worth pondering upon.