Rachmaninov Week-end: Kochanovsky/ Orchestre de Paris
Philharmonie 1, Paris, 27th April 2019
“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien,” complained Sergei Rachmaninov in a 1939 interview. “I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new.” The last of the Russian Romantics, his scores are all too easily dismissed for their “gushing tunes” (Eric Blom, 1954), yet the enduring popularity of his music is undeniable, hence a sold out pair of concerts by the Orchestre de Paris at the centre of the Philharmonie’s Rachmaninov Weekend where all four piano concertos were scheduled.
Denis Matsuev
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