Boris Berezovsky at the Royal Festival Hall

By Sophia Lambton, 08 June 2017

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“Berezovsky started sketching on a fresh new pad of creativity”

Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 5 June 2017

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 13 in E flat major "quasi una fantasia", Op.27 no.1

Chopin, Impromptu in A flat major, Op.29

Chopin, Impromptu in F sharp major, Op.36

Chopin, Impromptu in G flat major, Op.51

Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

Bartók, Piano Sonata Sz 80

Scarlatti, 3 Sonatas

Stravinsky, Piano Sonata

Stravinsky, Three movements from Petrushka (3 movements)

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

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

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande thrills with Neeme Järvi in Birmingham

Verity Quaite, 21st May

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is as pleasing watch as to listen to. Under the directorship of the renowned Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi since 2012, the orchestra is clearly flourishing. From start to finish, it was apparent that the orchestra were deeply enjoying their performance and this only improved the performance itself.

****1

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Sophia Lambton

Sophia Lambton became a professional classical music critic at the age of seventeen when she began to be published in Musical Opinion, Britain’s oldest magazine centred on classical music. One-and-a-half years later she embarked on a long pathway of research for an opera-related non-fiction book. In 2015 she graduated from Oxford with a 2:1 in Classics and Modern Languages. Sophia is currently working on both her non-fiction work, for which her New York agent is looking for a publisher, and the second volume of her third novel, The Crooked Little Pieces: A Story of Loves.