Comments on: Milan, Vienna, Prague, London, Zürich… https://albangerhardt.com/milan-vienna-prague-london-zurich/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: David https://albangerhardt.com/milan-vienna-prague-london-zurich/#comment-683 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:19:38 +0000 http://www.albangerhardt.com/blog/?p=248#comment-683 Love the CD of the two Prokofiev concertos side by side, love your interpretation, but Boreyko is nuts if he thinks Prokofiev saw Shostakovich as a problem (though I hadn’t noted the DSCH ref, must check it out). There was a certain friendly competition, and Prokofiev could be rude and tactless about works of DDS that he didn’t care for, but they knew each other’s worth. And Rostropovich claimed that he was inspired by seeing the timpanist of the, I guess, Moscow Phil, hit the end of the Prokofiev as he did, and incorporated the idea in his First Cello Concert (typical Slava anecdote – ‘man with wooden leg comes, bang!).

In just the same way a lady of the Rachmaninoff Society told me the two Sergeys hated each other. Not at all. The young ‘un clearly had to kick against the grain, but in America he came to see Rach as a kind of father figure and loved him.

Finally, I’m being so picky, but high time you called it by its proper name – Symphony Concerto. Not at all the same thing as Sinfonia Concertante, but old habits die hard. The Russian original means the former, and not the latter.

All best, and hope to hear you again soon. Steven Osborne gave us a stunning Shostakovich Second Piano Concerto in Birmingham – I never suspected the piece could take what he did with it.

]]> By: kate https://albangerhardt.com/milan-vienna-prague-london-zurich/#comment-682 Sun, 23 May 2010 18:37:53 +0000 http://www.albangerhardt.com/blog/?p=248#comment-682 I have just got home from hearing you play the Dvorak at Royal Festival Hall. I have to admit that on arriving I didn’t want to be inside in such glorious weather, however I am certainly glad I was. A wonderful concert….one of my favourite concerto’s bringing back memories of many a happy (or unhappy) hour studying it in my youth. Thank you! I hope you get to enjoy some sun in London before you leave to go elsewhere! Come back soon!!

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