Ustvolskaya, Rachmaninov and others
Jul. 18th, 2016 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylPrior to this weekend's Record Review, I knew nothing about Galina Ustvolskaya. Now, thanks to Saturday's programme and today's Munich Phil prom, I've made the aquaintance of a truly fascinating composer: her third symphony is strange and unique; unlike European avant-garde or Schnittke's symphonies, but with something similarly iconoclastic about it.
Behzod Abduraimov was superb in Rachmaninov's third piano concerto and his encore, Liszt's absurdly virtuosic La Campanella, was dazzling. The main pieces were bookended by Ravel's Boléro and Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier Suite, neither of which is entirely my thing, but they were well acomplished and Berlioz' version of the Rákóczi March from La Damnation de Faust made for a fun final encore.
Behzod Abduraimov was superb in Rachmaninov's third piano concerto and his encore, Liszt's absurdly virtuosic La Campanella, was dazzling. The main pieces were bookended by Ravel's Boléro and Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier Suite, neither of which is entirely my thing, but they were well acomplished and Berlioz' version of the Rákóczi March from La Damnation de Faust made for a fun final encore.
