Heart-thumping: Melnikov plays Chopin and Scriabin

Par David Karlin, 24 janvier 2016

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“he can get more out of a single note and the surrounding space than I have commonly heard”

Critique faite à Wigmore Hall, Londres, le 23 janvier 2016

Chopin, 24 Préludes, Op.28

Scriabine, Fantaisie en si mineur, Op.28

Scriabine, Deux Poèmes Op.32

Scriabine, Sonate pour piano no. 3 en fa dièse mineur, Op.23

Scriabine, 5 Préludes, Op.74

Scriabine, Piano Sonata no. 9 in F major, "Black Mass Sonata," Op.68

Alexander Melnikov, Piano

Schumann clivant : Isabelle Faust & co à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 7th November

Retour sur une approche radicale – qui passe certainement mieux au disque que dans une salle qui ne lui est pas taillée sur mesure – dans laquelle on aura pu apprécier l'excellence des interprètes.

***11

Captivante intégrale Beethoven

Luce Zurita, 1st December

Dans le cadre de leur actualité discographique, Jean-Guihen Queyras et Alexander Melnikov donnaient l'intégrale des oeuvres pour violoncelle et piano de Beethoven lors de deux récitals consécutifs à Londres.

*****

Bach sheds light in an impressively dark outing from the ACO

Nick Boston, 21st March

Energetic commitment from the ACO at the Barbican, with precision and edge from Alexander Melnikov and Jeroen Berwaerts in an evening of darkness and light.

****1

Energetic Scottish Symphony lifts a weighty evening with the LPO

Nick Boston, 20th January

Ponomarchuk and the LPO raise the spirits in Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony after an underwhelming first half at the Brighton Dome.

***11

Aimez-vous Rachmaninov? Alexander Melnikov at Musikfest Berlin

Elena Luporini, 27th August

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is joined on stage at the Philharmonie by Alexander Rudin, Nadezhda Pavlova and Olga Pashchenko to give the audience a taste of Rachmaninov's chamber repertoire.

****1

Mixed performances in Ligeti and Mozart from Les Siècles

David Truslove, 20th August

Three concertos and a symphony made for an unusual but generous programme, but Les Siècles illustrate that versatility can come with mixed blessings.

***11

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

Heart-thumping: Alexander Melnikov plays Chopin and Scriabin at Wigmore Hall