Cockroaches and kaleidoscopes: Mikhail Rudy recital

By Mark Pullinger, 28 March 2015

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Reviewed at Kings Place: Hall One, London on 27 March 2015

Janáček, Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 "From the Street"

Janáček, In the Mists

Janáček, On an Overgrown Path (Unutterable Anguish; In Tears; The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!)

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Mikhail Rudy, Piano

The Quay Brothers, Director

Pulsating new Andriessen at Holland Festival

Jenny Camilleri, 11th June

Louis Andriessen’s new opera is a masterly expedition into the grand and grotesque mind of Athanasius Kircher, polymath and fantastist, but it is hampered by a clumsy libretto.

***11

Alina Ibragimova at Wilton’s Music Hall

Andrew Benson-Wilson, 25th July

Following Alina Ibragimova’s recent residency in the medieval Library of Chetham’s School during the Manchester International Festival, her programme of some of the most complex solo violin works has now transferred for a short spell at Wilton’s Music Hall as part of the Barbican’s summer Blaze festival.

*****

Kandinsky and Chagall fail to camouflage patchy playing

Jonathan Sutherland, 31st May

Mikhail Rudy’s recital adapting music to animated art projections disappoints.

*1111

It is excellent to have a giant's strength

Robert O'Connor, 10th September

Playing three 45-minute concerts in one afternoon is a herculean triumph. Even if done badly it is still a triumph. Mikhail Rudy did that and fortunately did it very well. The three concerts took place on Sept. 10 at King's Place as part of their festival. The theme of all three was the Russian literature, which is rich with colorful, majestic, exotic and challenging pieces.

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Cockroaches and kaleidoscopes: Mikhail Rudy’s animated piano recital at King’s Place