Mischa Maisky performs at the Royal Festival Hall with Vadim Repin and Lang Lang
Published: 09 May 2011
Category: Artists
Mischa Maisky visits the Royal Festival Hall for the second time this spring, when on May 19 he teams up with Vadim Repin and Lang Lang for trios by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. The concert is part of the International Chamber Music Season, which Intermusica co-promotes. This stellar combination has already produced an extraordinary recording of the same repertoire for Deutsche Grammophon:
"Here is passionate communal music-making, most exhilarating in Tchaikovsky¿s final section, when the older musicians become gloriously infused with Lang Lang¿s youth and sparkle. At other points, the kaleidoscope of personalities keeps turning. In the Rachmaninov Maisky¿s soulful, yearning cello carries most of the music¿s emotional weight, with Repin in sweet support. Lang Lang himself stays bright, agile, but modest..."
The Times, October 2009
"A celebrity trio that is much more than the sum of its parts... what impresses most of all about these performances is their single-mindedness. Nowhere is there even a suggestion of conflicting temperaments with their own agenda. What shines through here is the give and take, the kinship, of outstanding chamber music playing..."
Gramophone, November 2009
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