Sudbin on sensational form at Wigmore Hall

By Roy Westbrook, 10 June 2017

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“Sudbin brought a purgatory fire of his own with tremolos flickering with burning intensity”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 9 June 2017

Scriabin, Vers la flamme, Op.72

Tchaikovsky, Nocturne in F major, Op.10 no. 1

Tchaikovsky, Les Saisons (The Seasons): Juin (June): Barcarolle

Tchaikovsky, Les Saisons (The Seasons): Novembre (November): Troika

Liszt, Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 11 Harmonies du Soir

Scarlatti, Sonatas

Medtner, Forgotten Melodies: Piano Sonata no. 11 in C minor "Sonata Tragica", Op.39 no.5

Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano

Awash with sentiment: Scriabin's Piano Concerto

Hedy Mühleck, 3rd December

The CBSO shines in a programme of big, energetic music and tender emotions.

***11

Kalmar debuts in Atlanta, paired with Yevgeny Sudbin

William E Ford, 19th November

Conductor Carlos Kalmar and pianist Yevgeny Sudbin collaborated to play a solid Beethoven First Piano Concerto. Kalmar finished the program with a loud performance of the Schoenburg arrangement of Brahms' Piano Quartet no. 1.

***11

These things of darkness: Yevgeny Sudbin

Frances Wilson, 13th May

A dark thread ran through Yevgeny Sudbin’s recital at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, from the sombre B minor sonata by Haydn to Scriabin’s infamous “Black Mass” sonata and Saint-Saens’ virtuosic Danse macabre.

***11

A feast of virtuosity: Yevgeny Sudbin at Wigmore Hall

Frances Wilson, 21st January

It is rare to be at a concert where one is utterly captivated from the first note until the very last has faded to silence, but such was the effect of Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin on a packed Wigmore Hall at his lunchtime recital of works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin and Saint-Saëns.

*****

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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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.