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2018-05-26 09:37:33
A heart in exile: pianist Lucy Parham talks about her latest composer portrait
[…] Rachmaninoff's music, ever since she first heard Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto as a girl and thought 'goodness, can I every play that'; in fact, she did and has chalked up around 20 performances. And it isn't just the piano music, she loves the songs and symphonies and refers to the clarinet solo in the second movement of the Second Symphony as 'something out of heaven'.Rachmaninoff was very classically trained as a pianist, his teacher Nikolai Zverev was very very strict; the young pupils (only six of them, all young boys) were up at six am and training was full of physical discipline. Zverev did not just teach them piano, he provided general tuition too. And he could not understand why Rachmaninoff wanted to be a composer so that Rachmaninoff left Zverev when he was 16 which led to a complete breakdown in their relationship. Lucy Parham (Photo Amy Zielinski) […]
2017-01-24 12:14:00
Performances of tremendous insight and depth from Peter Donohoe on a new release of Scriabin’s complete sonatas from Somm
Following on from Peter Donohoe’s www.peter-donohoe.com masterly performances of Prokofiev’s sonatas http://theclassicalreviewer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/an-unbeatable-disc-from-somm-recordings.htmlSomm Recordings www.somm-recordings.com now brings an equally impressive release of Scriabin’s complete sonatas. 2CDSOMMCD 262-2 Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) www.scriabinsociety.comstudied with Nikolai Zverev (1832-1893) and at the Moscow Conservatory where his teachers were Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915), Anton Arensky (1861-1906) and Vasily Safonov (1852-1918). Initially influenced by Chopin, he moved on to develop a very personal style of composition highly influenced by his personal beliefs in mysticism and theosophy. Listening to these two new discs one can follow Scriabin’s development from the early sonatas through to the freedom and ecstasy of his later works with Donohoe drawing together the points of contact between the volatility of his later sonatas even in Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6 (1892). He particularly points up a remarkably turbulent quality in the opening Allegro con fuoco finding […]
2017-01-24 12:14:00
Performances of tremendous insight and depth from Peter Donohoe on a new release of Scriabin’s complete sonatas from Somm
Following on from Peter Donohoe’s www.peter-donohoe.com masterly performances of Prokofiev’s sonatas http://theclassicalreviewer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/an-unbeatable-disc-from-somm-recordings.htmlSomm Recordings www.somm-recordings.com now brings an equally impressive release of Scriabin’s complete sonatas. 2CDSOMMCD 262-2 Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) www.scriabinsociety.comstudied with Nikolai Zverev (1832-1893) and at the Moscow Conservatory where his teachers were Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915), Anton Arensky (1861-1906) and Vasily Safonov (1852-1918). Initially influenced by Chopin, he moved on to develop a very personal style of composition highly influenced by his personal beliefs in mysticism and theosophy. Listening to these two new discs one can follow Scriabin’s development from the early sonatas through to the freedom and ecstasy of his later works with Donohoe drawing together the points of contact between the volatility of his later sonatas even in Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6 (1892). He particularly points up a remarkably turbulent quality in the opening Allegro con fuoco finding […]
2015-04-28 19:19:15
[…] think particularly interested Scriabin? I often hear the Polonaise Fantasie in his work. True, I was thinking also of the Polonaise Fantasie. Also maybe in the Mazurkas, the Etudes.. The titles are very similar, naturally. I have some recordings of Scriabin, though the quality of them is not so good. It’s fantastic the way he played, the freedom, the beauty. It’s very interesting to consider how he began. Both he and Rachmaninoff were studying with Zverev , you know. Do you remember Cortot’s approach to Scriabin? He played Scriabin. He played the fifth sonata. I have a recording, which I need to listen to again. Scriabin’s son-in-law, Sofronitsky , there I think you get the real character of Scriabin. He plays it beautifully. I think you have to get a feeling for this music. When Horowitz is inspired, he plays Scriabin beautifully too. He has the sense of polyphony, and […]
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