The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital performed by Tatyana Nikolayeva

Nikolayeva in her sixties has extraordinary power tempered with tenderness; her Bach is gloriously grand, her Ravel as delicate as her Schumann is ultra-serious. A splendid concert, despite occasional fistfuls of wrong notes.

Jessica Duchen

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4

Jessica Duchen

Published: July 6, 2018 at 10:12 am

COMPOSERS: Bach,Borodin,Musorgsky,Prokofiev,Ravel,Schumann,Scriabin
LABELS: First Hand
ALBUM TITLE: Tatyana Nikolayeva
WORKS: The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital: Bach, Schumann, Ravel, Scriabin, Borodin, Musorgsky, Prokofiev
PERFORMER: Tatyana Nikolayeva (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: FHR 46 (1989)

Nikolayeva in her sixties has extraordinary power tempered with tenderness; her Bach is gloriously grand, her Ravel as delicate as her Schumann is ultra-serious. A splendid concert, despite occasional fistfuls of wrong notes.

Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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