With Robert Greenberg as guide, and with Ohlsson’s interpretations as the musical touchstone, these two evenings of discussion and performance will illuminate the piano.
Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev together constitute an extraordinary triumvirate of composers, one that traces a stylistic range from nineteenth century Russian Romanticism through the percussive energy and idiosyncratic compositional spirit of the twentieth century.
Garrick Ohlsson, the foremost interpreter of Romantic repertoire of our day, is ideally suited to the demands of this fascinating and captivating group. With Robert Greenberg as guide, and with Ohlsson’s interpretations as the musical touchstone, these two evenings of discussion and performance will illuminate the piano music of the three great turn-of-the twentieth century Russian composer-pianists: the mystic, the Romantic and the modernist—namely Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
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