{"id":4903,"date":"2019-01-30T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:40:39","slug":"roman-rabinovich-a-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"Roman Rabinovich: A Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steinway Hall, 29 January 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Haydn\u2019s piano music is much less well known than his symphonies, choral works and chamber music but they\u2019re well worth listening to especially in an intimate space such as Steinway Hall which sits behind the Steinway showroom in Marylebone Lane.<\/p>\n

Roman Rabinovich is working with The Haydn Society of Great Britain to promote a wider knowledge of Haydn\u2019s piano sonatas by recording them all for CD. This showcase was designed to draw attention to the project and to launch Haydn Piano Sonatas Vol 1 (First Hand Records) which was on sale at the event.<\/p>\n

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We began with Sonata in D Major Hob XVI: 37 which Rabinovich told the audience he would personally nickname \u201cThe Chicken.\u201d He then stressed that clucking (as it were) motif on a rising triplet. In the middle movement he leaned quite heavily on the contrasting sober chordal D minor section before treating us to chirpy, witty finale.<\/p>\n

Then we got Sonata in C Major Hob XVI.48 written 15 years later for the \u201cnewfangled\u201d fortepiano. Rabinovich observed the difference in mood which is thoughtful until the finale, which he played at high speed like a rather jolly race. Later he played \u2013 with verve – the two-movement Sonata in B Minor (unusual key!) Hob XV1:34.<\/p>\n

It was more than a piano recital, however. Sandwiched in with the sonatas was a short film by Ruth Schocken Katz documenting Rabinovich\u2019s life, background and music. The son of two pianists he moved, aged 10, from Uzbekistan where opportunities were very limited to Israel where they weren\u2019t. He is also an accomplished artist and a series of his drawings called \u201cImaginary Encounters with Haydn\u201d has been animated by Adam McRae \u2013 fun to see pianist and composer enjoying a beer together, taking a selfie, going on a flight and more.<\/p>\n

We were also treated to a very short (I\u2019d have liked more) Q\/A with music journalist Jessica Duchen who, among other things, got Rabinovich to talk about different sorts of pianos then and now. In the recording he plays a Steinway model D.<\/p>\n

It was an enjoyable and informative 75 minutes. It\u2019s just a pity that Steinway \u2013 of all companies and on its own premises \u2013 couldn\u2019t find a creak-free piano stool for an internationally acclaimed virtuoso to sit on. The noise was both loud and distracting.<\/p>\n

Susan Elkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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