Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis Soloist: Arkadi Volodos – piano Sibelius: The Oceanides – symphonic poem, op. 73 Prokofjev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16 Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rheinish”), op. 97 The extremely versatile Sir Andrew Davis is equally at home in Baroque, Romantic, Viennese classic and contemporary music. For years he was the artistic director of the famous Glyndebourne Opera Festival, currently he is music director of the Chicago Opera and artistic con...sultant to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared with practically all the leading international orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic through the Concertgebouw Orchestra to the Chicago Symphony. The pianist Arkadi Volodos, born in 1972 in St Petersburg and blessed with fiendish abilities, studied in his native city, then in Moscow, Paris and Madrid. His meteoric career did not begin with a victory in a big competition – he considers competition to be foreign to music and has never entered one. The attention of the head of a record company on a visit to France was drawn to the pianist who was studying there: “You meet a talent like Volodos once in a lifetime”, was his opinion and a recording contract followed immediately. The CD of piano arrangements appeared in 1997 and was an enormous success, winning a host of prizes. The success story has continued without interruption. A solo recital in Carnegie Hall (the live recording also won numerous prizes), invitations from great orchestras and festivals. The critics most often compare Volodos’s playing to that of Horowitz: brilliant technique, sometimes surprising solutions that avoid conventions but always serve the music, a special ability to charm the listener.
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