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In a score which is often used as a vehicle to display the pianist’s virtuosity, there was a total lack of grandiloquence.

Alexander Melnikov summons up the full range of pianistic emotions in Chopin's 24 Preludes, followed by exploration of texture and dynamic contrast in Scriabin.

The concert, which was part of Mostly Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” series of late-night events, was comprised of six preludes, six canons, and George Benjamin’s 2001 composition Shadowlines, six canonic preludes for the piano that were written for Aimard.