{"id":3620,"date":"2024-05-09T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/?post_type=event&p=3620"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:05:55","slug":"alexander-melnikov","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/alexander-melnikov\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Melnikov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The festival appearance of <\/span>Alexand<\/span>e<\/span>r Melnikov<\/span> promises something <\/span>truly unique<\/span>. <\/span>This graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, whose musical coming of age was defined by his encounters with the legendary<\/span> Sv<\/span>i<\/span>atoslav Richter, <\/span>is one of the most sought-after and most original pianists on today\u2019s classical scene. He appears with the likes of the <\/span>Concertgebouw <\/span>Amsterdam<\/span>, <\/span>the Leipzig<\/span> Gewandha<\/span>u<\/span>s<\/span> Orchestra<\/span> and the <\/span>Philadelphia Orchestra<\/span>. <\/span>His lifelong interest <\/span>in historically informed interpretation led him to perform on period keyboard instruments and to his collaboration with ensembles such as the <\/span>Freibur<\/span>g Baroque Orchestra and the<\/span> Akademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik Berlin.<\/span> He has won awards at the <\/span>Robert<\/span> Schumann<\/span> International Competition in <\/span>Zwickau<\/span> and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels<\/span>. <\/span>The audience at the <\/span>Rudolf <\/span>Firku<\/span><\/span>\u0161n\u00fd<\/span> <\/span>Piano Festival<\/span><\/span> will be taken on a genuine musical journey through time. The stage of the <\/span>Rudolfinum\u2019s<\/span> Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/span> Hall will accommodate five keyboard instruments from various historical eras <\/span>\u2013 <\/span>a Baroque harpsichord, two fortepianos, a French Romantic instrument from the <\/span>workshop of <\/span>Ignaz Pleyel, <\/span>hailed <\/span>for its soft, mellow sound, and a modern <\/span>Steinway<\/span> grand<\/span>. <\/span>Melnikov <\/span>will begin the concert with the earliest model, on which he will perform Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s <\/span><\/span>Chromatic<\/span> Fantasia and Fugue<\/span><\/span><\/em>. <\/span>With <\/span>works<\/span> by<\/span> Bach<\/span>\u2019s son<\/span> Carl Philipp Emanuel, Mozart<\/span>, <\/span>Mendelssohn<\/span> and<\/span> Chopin<\/span>,<\/span> he will shift along an imaginary <\/span>timeline from one instrument to the next until, <\/span>drawing on <\/span>the music of Alexander Scriabin and <\/span>Alfred <\/span>Schnittke<\/span>, he <\/span>will <\/span>arrive at the modern piano, bring<\/span>ing<\/span> this imaginative concert to a close<\/span>. <\/span>When the pianist recorded this programme on <\/span>CD <\/span>for <\/span>h<\/span>armonia<\/span> m<\/span>undi France, <\/span>critic <\/span>Ivan Hewett<\/span>,<\/span> writing for <\/span>the British<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>elegraph<\/span><\/span>,<\/span> gave the recording a full five stars, describing it as <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/em><\/span>the most engrossing thing I\u2019ve heard in months<\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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