La virtuosité colossale de Boris Berezovsky au Festival de Menton

By Manon Decroix, 07 August 2019

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“le colosse s’adonne à une gestique délicate : ses aigus sont cristallins, ses graves ronronnants”

Reviewed at Parvis Saint-Michel, Menton on 6 August 2019

Scriabin, Fragilité, Op.51 no.1

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 5 in F sharp major, Op.53

Scriabin, Trois études, Op.65

Bach, Violin partita no. 3 in E major, BWV1006: Preludio (arr. Sergueï Rachmaninov)

Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61: Scherzo (arr. Sergueï Rachmaninov)

Schubert, Bächlein (arr. Sergueï Rachmaninov)

Tchaikovsky, Kolibel'naya pesnya (Cradle Song), Op.16 no.1 (arr. Sergueï Rachmaninov)

Godowsky, Studies on Chopin's Études (extraits)

Scriabin, Prelude and Nocturne for the left hand, Op.9

Boris Berezovsky, Piano

Three Russian giants in Oxford

Roy Westbrook, 28th July

Had the piece been much longer, pianist, instrument, audience and hall would surely have been consumed by some Pentecostal fire. Which is more or less what the composer had in mind.

****1

Boris Berezovsky at the Royal Festival Hall

Sophia Lambton, 5th June

A recital of incomparable but unrelated works became a lengthy attempt to adapt tempi.

***11

Musical expressions of Pianoscope

Olga de Kort, 15th October

Friendschip, new discoveries and variety of musical expressions at the opening concert of the 10th Pianoscope Festival in Beauvais.

****1

Dvořák in Istanbul: the Borodins and Berezovsky impress

Alain Matalon, 4th June

The five musicians on stage performed just like a well-oiled machine in Dvořák's Op. 81 Piano Quintet’s devilishly tricky coda.

****1

Boris Berezovsky at Royal Festival Hall

Frances Wilson, 14th January

Acclaimed Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky opened the 2014 International Piano Series concerts at Southbank Centre with an impressive and absorbing recital of music by Debussy, Ravel and Rachmaninov.

*****

Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Manchester

Rohan Shotton, 22nd May

Neeme Järvi brought his fine Swiss orchestra to Manchester for a deeply moving evening of Pärt, Grieg and Tchaikovsky, leaving a large audience very quiet as they left the Bridgewater Hall.Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony amid substantial personal turmoil, despite the relatively recent success of his Fifth.

****1

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Manon Decroix

Titulaire d'un master de musicologie (Université Nice Côte d’Azur), Manon mène des recherches dans le but d’améliorer la compréhension du poème symphonique romantique. Altiste et professeur d’éducation musicale, elle participe à de nombreux projets de recherche, radiophoniques et pédagogiques en France et à Monaco. Elle se passionne pour les interprétations historiquement informées.