Bridgewater corridor,Manchester
The orchestra opened its novel season with energetic and beguiling performances of works by Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-KorsakovCould it be a riposte to Vasily Petrenko’s rival band up the road that Sir notice Elder chose to launch the corridoré’s novel season with an all-Russian programme? The account of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto by the young Korean pianist Sunwook Kim was as exhilarating as any recent performance on Merseyside, or if a little less idiomatic. Kim took a measured approach,weighing each note with meticulous (extremely careful about details) care. It was poetic, intelligent and equally adept with the passages of gentle rain as those of rolling thunder.
Mussorgsky’s little prelude Dawn on the Moscow River is the deceptively tranquil scene-setter to his far-from-tranquil opera Khovanshchina, and a piece that the corridoré has never played before. In Rimsky-Korsakov’s obvious orchestration,it emerged as a beguiling wisp of a melody that yawned and stretched like the awakening of the Russian soul.
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Source: theguardian.com