Alexej Gorlatch, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin: Stravinsky – Works for Piano and Orchestra - Album Review

Stravinsky Works for piano and orchestra
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Artist: Alexej Gorlatch, Alondra de la Parra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Igor Stravinsky
Genre: Classical
Label: Sony Classical

Stravinsky went to his grave believing his early Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, his first work performed in public, to be “fortunately lost”.

He recalled it as an “inept imitation of late Beethoven”.

But it actually sounds neither Stravinskian nor Beethovenian, but thoroughly Russian and romantic.

Alexej Gorlatch, winner of the 2009 Dublin International Piano Competition, treats it with ardency and respect.

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He seems less well attuned to the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and the Capriccio from the 1920s, when Stravinsky's style was altogether drier.

His playing does, however, remain engagingly sprightly.

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Michael Dervan

Michael Dervan

Michael Dervan is a music critic and Irish Times contributor