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