Sudbin medtner rachmaninov biography
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Medtner/Rachmaninov (Bis)
★★★★ (out of five)
Most concert pianists are like modern tennis players. They know that only two or three men and women are ever going to win the major tournaments, which leaves all the rest working harder each day in vain pursuit of an inhuman perfection and an inexhaustible hope.
The Russian-born Yevgeny Sudbin is a circuit pianist who, living in London and teaching at the Royal Academy, has yet to break top ten rankings. He’s a tremendous player of exceptional flair who has made recording for the past decade on an esoteric Swedish label, covering mostly Russian music. The reception has been enthusiastic, the major breakthrough elusive.
Might this be it? Something clicks in the opening track of this album in a way this listener seldom experiences, in concert or on record. The music is the first published work by Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951, a mystic Russian sometimes dismissed as poor man’s Rachmaninov and played in much the same muscular way.
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Most concert pianists are like modern tennis players. They know that only two or three men and women are ever going to win the major tournaments, which leaves all the rest working harder each day in vain pursuit of an inhuman perfection and an inexhaustible hope.
The Russian-born Yevgeny Sudbin is a circuit pianist who, living in London and teaching at the Royal Academy, has yet to break top ten rankings. He’s a tremendous player of exceptional flair who has made recording for the past decade on an esoteric Swedish label, covering mostly Russian music. The reception has been enthusiastic, the major breakthrough elusive.
Might this be it? Something clicks in the opening track of this album in a way this listener seldom experiences, in concert or on record. The music is the first published work by Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951, a mystic Russian sometimes dismissed as poor man’s Rachmaninov, and played in much the same muscular way.
It’s a mistake Yevgeny
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