Alexander Melnikov arrived in Ithaca, New York last Saturday for two recitals—the first on Sunday, the second on Tuesday—using a total of four different pianos and a harpsichord to boot. The ...

A Vancouver Recital Society presentation. At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and 27 How do you describe perfection? The words are there—brilliant, awesome, ...

Pianists who appear in recital with other artists always risk playing second fiddle. On Sunday at the Phillips Collection, the violinist Isabelle Faust was scheduled to perform with the pianist ...

Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues have become Alexander Melnikov's calling card of late. Written in 1951 for Tatiana Nikolayeva, whose Bach performances Shostakovich hugely admired, they have a ...

Melnikov beautifully plays four historic pianos – including an 1820s Alois Graff – on a rewarding disc of Stravinsky, Schumann and more. Plus, the verdict on other must-listen classical albums out ...

There is another side to American music than the razzle dazzle that opened Seattle Symphony’s two-week Tuning Up! festival on June 17. On Wednesday and Thursday night, June 29-30, pianist Alexander ...

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov spoke to Classic FM's Anne-Marie Minhall the day after playing a concert on Mozart's own personal piano, recently brought home to Vienna, to the exact spot where ...

When he was just 8 years old, pianist Alexander Melnikov had his first transformative musical experience — listening to Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 at a December Nights music ...

The brainchild of pianist Alexander Melnikov, this features five of the 30 or so sonatas for instruments and piano that Paul Hindemith wrote over the course of his long career. The selection covers ...

The sound Alexander Melnikov coaxes out of his instrument is never “lovely” but is always maximally alive and alert. Rating: * * * * Some pianists relish their own mastery of the keyboard, flinging ...

The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...

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