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By Alan Coady, 12 April 2011

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Reviewed at Haddington Town House, Haddington on 10 April 2011

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor "Pathétique", Op.13

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight", Op.27 no.2

Chopin, Polonaise no. 7 in A flat major "Polonaise-fantaisie", Op.61

Chopin, Impromptu in F sharp major, Op.36

Chopin, Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60

Liszt, Ballade no. 1 in D flat major, "Le chant du croisé" (The crusaders song), S 170

Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 13 in A minor, S 244/13

Liszt, Rigoletto: Paraphrase de Concert, S 434

Nikolai Demidenko, Piano

Demidenko's Chopin a highlight

Frances Wilson, 16th February

The Flanders Symphony Orchestra performed music by Mozart and Beethoven, with Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko joining them for Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor.

***11

Fervent Rachmaninov from Demidenko

Julia Zupancic, 13th February

Under the baton of Jan Latham-Koenig, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra rendered a diverse programme in Leeds.

***11

Kensington Symphony

Ken Ward, 25th November

At London's new venue Milton Court, Kensington Symphony Orchestra played a mixed Bruckner 3 and an excellent Prokofiev concerto with soloist Nikolai Demidenko.

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio play Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

Simon Birch, 27th October

The evening’s music started with a piece I hadn’t heard before: Johan Svendsen’s Carnival in Paris, Episode for Orchestra Op.9.

****1

Atractivo viaje por la música húngara de la mano de Nikolai Demidenko y Otto Tausk

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 15th April

Ameno programa húngaro con un colosal Nikolai Demidenko y un inspirado Otto Tausk en el podio

****1

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

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Alan Coady

Alan has taught classical guitar in East Lothian schools since 1982. A graduate in Music of the then Huddersfield Polytechnic, he has a soft spot for the contemporary. He also writes a Musical Blog, where the special interest is the intersection of music/language/science.