Tag-team Prokofiev triumphs at the Proms

By Mark Pullinger, 29 July 2015

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“poetry cascaded from Trifonov’s fingers, pearly rivulets of sound”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 28 July 2015

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 1 in D flat major, Op.10

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op.16

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major, Op.26

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 4 (For the Left Hand), Op.53

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 5 in G major, Op.55

Daniil Trifonov, Piano

Sergei Babayan, Piano

Alexei Volodin, Piano

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, Conductor

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Pappano and the LSO: a thrilling collision between heaven and hell

Charlotte Gardner, 16th April

Vilde Frang joins Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican for transcendent Korngold alongside darker fare.

****1

Han Kang’s The White Book takes on a compelling new life

Peter Quantrill, 5th March

At the Barbican, Laura Bowler's new work for Barbara Hannigan translates Han Kang's novel into a soundscape of icy stillness

****1

A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the LSO

Mark Valencia, 26th February

Good, bad, but never ugly, a curious evening unfolds at the Barbican, inspired at times, ill-judged in places.

***11

Borodin steps into the symphonic limelight: Noseda and the LSO

Mark Pullinger, 15th February

Seong-Jin Cho continues his Artist Portrait series with the LSO by performing Chopin's poetic Second Piano Concerto.

****1

Rattle and the LSO sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain

Roy Westbrook, 18th January

Opening her LSO Artist Portrait series, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto before Rattle and the LSO whisk the audience to Falla’s Andalusia.

****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.

Prom 14: LSO’s tag-team Prokofiev triumphs in the five piano concertos