It is excellent to have a giant's strength

By Robert O'Connor, 12 September 2010

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Reviewed at Kings Place: Hall One, London on 10 September 2010

Tchaikovsky, Les Saisons (The Seasons) for piano, Op.37a or Op.37b

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Mikhail Rudy, Piano

Kandinsky and Chagall fail to camouflage patchy playing

Jonathan Sutherland, 31st May

Mikhail Rudy’s recital adapting music to animated art projections disappoints.

*1111

Cockroaches and kaleidoscopes: Mikhail Rudy recital

Mark Pullinger, 27th March

The Institut Français’ three day festival “It’s all about Piano!” kicked off cinematically at King’s Place, with Mikhail Rudy’s compact double bill of Metamorphosis and Pictures at an Exhibition.

***11

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

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