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“seemed suspended in some eerie place outside of reality”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 5 June 2018
Rachmaninov, Prelude in G minor, Op.23 no.5
Rachmaninov, Étude-tableau in C minor, Op.39 no.1
Rachmaninov, Études-tableau in C minor, Op.33 no.3
Rachmaninov, Étude-tableau in B minor, Op.39 no.4
Rachmaninov, Prelude in B minor, Op.32 no.10
Rachmaninov, Études-tableau in E flat major, Op.33 no.6
Rachmaninov, Étude-tableau in E flat minor, Op.39 no.5
Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 10, Op.70
Ligeti, Étude no. 3 "Touches bloquées"
Ligeti, Étude no. 9 "Vertige" (Vertigo)
Ligeti, Étude no. 1 "Désordre"
Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 8 in B flat major, Op.84
Mendelssohn, Song without words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2
Prokofiev, Toccata in D minor, Op.11
Rachmaninov, Vocalise, Op.34 no.14
Horowitz, Carmen Variations
Liszt, Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 558 no. 8 (transcribed from Schubert D 118)
Chopin, Waltz no. 7 in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2
Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 7 in B flat major, Op.83: Precipitato
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