It is easy to impress with pyrotechnics where and when speed is the main criterion by which many judge a performance and thus superficial technique supersedes and sacrifices taste and temperament.

One is of course guilty of this too, an example coming to mind that of a warhorse of the piano concerto canon where a recording by the composer as soloist ( Read more... )

Having a triple bill of guest soloists is a rare treat offered when perhaps the Beethoven Triple Concerto or Brahms Double Concerto is on the programme. To gild the lily, imagine if you will an esteemed and pedigreed family gracing the stage and you have the evening's events. Distinguished conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky with pianist wife Viktoria ( Read more... )