http://tinyurl.com/kmss7l

Do not miss the Janacek, and Shostakovich.  What the heck, just watch
it all!

Semi-related: Last month, I felt awkward bringing up Argerich at all in
a rave about Yuja, but I was nowhere as silly, obvious, and heavy-handed
as the Financial Times' Richard Fairman in saying - d'oh!!! - that there
is a difference...:)) -

   The Prokofiev was his Third Piano Concerto, played by
   22-year-old Yuja Wang, the latest star import from China's
   massive factory for young pianists. It felt as if lightning
   struck again here, as her fingers flashed across the keyboard
   with every note sparklingly in place. The music soared -
   no vulgarity, no banging, and it would have seemed the very
   model of a performance, if the memory of Martha Argerich
   in the same concerto only two months ago was not still so
   fresh. The myriad colours that Argerich gets flashing through
   the music take the audience on a wild ride as if they are
   tumbling around inside a giant kaleidoscope, whereas Yuja
   Wang's highly skilled playing remains firmly in one dimension.

["Latest"?  She's been around for most of a decade.  "One-dimensional"?
That's a sloppy, misleading shorthand for "not quite Argerich."]

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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