Chamber Music Prom 4: Monday 8th August at 1.00 p.m. ( Liszt, Prokofiev)

[amateur51]

Well, she certainly has plenty of time to grow. Who knows what she could be at fifty?

Perhaps I'd agree with you more if I hadn't experienced it live and seen the extreme intensity playing across her face as she was moved by the music...at times I found myself wanting to avert my eyes and look away, it seemed almost too personal and intimate a thing to look at her.

Surely in a world of "cookie cutter conservatory" pianists, that sense of personal connection--identification, even--is a rare quality worth noting.

I'm in considerable agreement with you as to her potential, cavatina - that's why I find it so frustrating that she turns in woeful performances. As I've suggested, I think she needs some time away from the limelight - there's a long & noble tradition of young musicians doing this, to become much more the finished article after a few years 'in the wilderness'.

[austin]

Khatia Buniatishvili played a similar programme at the Verbier Festival and it can be seen here.....

http://tinyurl.com/3wej3cq

[jillfc]

I'm listening to the R3 repeat of this at the moment, having been at Cadogan Hall for the recital itself. I thought her performance of the Liszt badly marred by heavy over-use of the sustaining pedal; and though the effect of this is reduced in what I'm hearing now, I still think it detracts substantially from her otherwise impressive playing. In the hall, the Prokofiev suffered similarly - much of the necessary sharpness was muffled - and I also thought there was some perverse phrasing and accentuation.

[Serial_Apologist]

I only came in just now on the tail-end of the Liebestraum - beautifully played - and Liszt needs a lot of sustain for his more rapturous passages. As for the Prokofiev, I have heard many versions of this piece, and, well, maybe one needed a score to spot any inaccuracies, but I didn't notice any, and thought it a truly remarkable performance by any standards. But maybe I've been listening to too much jazz to worry that much about minutiae.