Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto

Even if you are an ordinary singer, I have never heard the performance of Britton Piano Concerto. The same can be said about the illusions of other unusual Debussy pianos and orchestras. Rachmaninov's second and third piano concertos are the main contents of the play, but his fourth concerto often appears for the first time when the orchestra examines all four.

Okay, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes came to help. As an artist of the New York Philharmonics Orchestra, this season we made an adventurous decision to play these ignored works at three shows. In October, he made a wonderful explanation of the fourth part of Rachmaninov as his composer's most experimental score. He plans to participate in the Debussy competition in April.

On Thursday, Antonio Pappano was on the podium and Mr. Annesnes played Britton 's non - traditional Four - Sports Concerto which was heard at the Philharmonic Orchestra 36 years ago. In 1938, Britton was 25 when he was founded but he corrected it after 7 years (instead of third movement, remembering and Aria, Improvisation)

My admiration for Britton has caused everyone to die, and I always liked this early concerto. But the energetic and insightful performance that Andsnes brought to Pappano and Philharmonic Orchestra is a revelation.

The four movements of the concerto have a sarcastic and neoclassical finish. Mr. Anznes studied under the water in order to arrange the change of music and mania's energy. The writing of the piano is pretty awesome; Mr. Andsnes sent it with such relaxing commands and exhaustive clarity, the ambiguous octave of each arm, all entangled passage works are meaningful and imagination It seems to be.

The first sports, Toccata will begin with an exciting theme and will soon be divided into a piano scale and a shining orchestral business. The second movement innocently named Waltz showed a kind of luxurious, darkly manipulated dance in this performance. The structure of Impromptu is like Baroque Passacaglia, with a theme of permanent morale, through countless clams, arrogance, and strange change. This work ends in a powerful and rhythmic March, and you get great performance here.

In the opening game of the show, Mr. Pappano uses his British growth experience and his Italian tradition, Vaughan Williams' "Tomastris Theme Fantasia" expresses the softness of the music, modal beauty. It is expressed in Italian strength. To some extent, the program still performs the final work of UK model: the third Symphony of C Minor Sunsang, the so-called "pipe organ" Symphony, was first played in London in 1886

Probably nodding to British hobbies, the composer incorporated grand and magnificent elements into the romantic music of France. The Philharmonic Orchestra often does not have a simple reason: the hall does not have an organ. Excellent organist Kent Tritle offered him an electronic fax and a big speaker behind the scenes

Should refurbished David Geffen Hall (if any) should include a permanent organ? Advantages and Disadvantages

I tried a lot of recordings for Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto. Most pianists make his music a wonderful artistic sound, but they do not convey the soul of music. For the third concerto, Earl Wide is my favorite recording. American pianists are absolutely dazzled to show the beauty of this concerto. While he made it an artistic and exciting sound he conveyed the feelings of this concerto. Nevertheless, the third concerto of Rachmaninoff did not contact me like my second concerto.

All Russian programs this week. The orchestra participated in Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto by pianist Boris Berezovsky. Concerto begins with a concert and then continues with the spring ceremony by Igor Stravinsky and ends with a song; Rimski Korsakoff puts out an invisible city Kitezh. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, formerly the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, has a long history of 120 years and has changed several names in the process. Their most memorable times were in the 1940s and 1960s, and they were under the guidance of Evgeny Mravinsky. They are known all over the world for their recordings and broadcasting via Moscow Radio and its posting service. They rarely traveled and after the collapse of the Soviet Union they were renamed St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the original Leningrad returned to their original name.