Although highly praised at the time of their initial release on RCA Victor, John Browning’s late 1960s recordings of the five Prokofiev piano concertos didn’t last long in the LP catalog. This ...
Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...
French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a light-fingered Prokofievian, and his orientation towards clarity rather than weight is shared by his conducting partner, Gianandrea Noseda. Their Prokofiev is ...
All five of the Prokofiev piano concertos, played by four keyboardists, will be the focal point of the San Francisco Symphony’s annual two-week summer festival June 14-24 in San Francisco’s Davies ...
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Nikolai Demidenko is a master of nuance and the best moments in his performance of Prokofiev’s Second Concerto find him caressing the keys for, say, a hypnotic diminuendo (from 1'42'' into the first ...
Tie yourself and your valuables down. Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev take a dangerous, open-top sports car approach to Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. The sharpness of the attack, the delight in ...