PIANO WIZARDS ON PARADE IN THE BAY AREA

The first of four keyboard wizards up is young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, who performs his compatriot composer Sergei Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Andres Orozco-Estrada at Davies Symphony Hall. The Prokofiev piece, once described as a "...

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Published inThe Mercury News
Main Author North, Cheryl
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Jose, Calif Bay Area News Group 20.04.2017
Subjects
Cello music
Composers
Keyboards
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Piano
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
San Francisco California
Spain
Russia
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Summary:The first of four keyboard wizards up is young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, who performs his compatriot composer Sergei Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Andres Orozco-Estrada at Davies Symphony Hall. The Prokofiev piece, once described as a "frantic dazzler," will share the evening with fellow Russian Sergei Rachmaninoff's lyric Symphony No. 2 - the one brimming with gorgeous romantic, sometimes bittersweet, melodies and passages that have occasionally served as background balm for a few 20th-century movies - especially during poignant love or farewell scenes. Perahia, who is also a respected conductor, will play J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 6; Mozart's exuberant Rondo in A minor; Franz Schubert's intimate and elegant Impromptus, D. 935, all topped off by Beethoven's moving and prophetic Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Opus 111, widely considered his greatest and most profound.