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...Rather than a companion concerto, Faust fills the album with three of Britten’s small chamber works, joined by Boris Faust on viola and Alexander Melnikov on piano....
...Alexander Melnikov was the fortepiano soloist in the Piano Concerto No 23, K488, nearly inaudible in this huge hall....
...The Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is not optimistic. “I know the way my country functions,” he says. “When pressed against the wall, the Russians only cluster more tightly around the leadership.”...
...Isserlis and his pianist, Alexander Melnikov, made out of it an intense, short postscript to the 20th-century Russian style. On either side came central masterpieces from that tradition....
...Isabelle Faust has chosen to record the work using gut strings, giving a 19th-century period flavour to the sound, and Alexander Melnikov accompanies her on an Erard piano from c.1885....
...On disc it is another matter: Alexander Melnikov shows how effective his 1837 Erard piano sounds in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, the music breathing an air of relaxed geniality and grace....
...Pianist Alexander Melnikov revelled in that sense of ambiguity, wringing out the dark undercurrents in the ostensibly playful No. 17, and sitting somewhere between triumph and tragedy at the culmination...
...However, Alexander Verkhovsky at Moscow’s Sova Centre think-tank, believes returning fighters are being closely observed. “We don’t know what the authorities are thinking....
...The Piano Trio No 3, for which Faust is joined by Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, is light, expressive, imaginative....
...Beethoven Piano Trios Op 70 No 2, Op 97 “Archduke” Alexander Melnikov, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras (Harmonia Mundi)...
...In 2010, the then culture minister Alexander Avdeev named Kesaeva as commissioner of the Russian pavilion for the next three Biennales....
...“There has been talk about consolidation of the railway cargo business for some time,” says Alexander Eliseev, chairman of Globaltrans. “We have transformed words into deeds.”...
...Zhukova was born in Moscow in 1981 – christened Daria (Dasha is a nickname) – the only child of Elena, a molecular biologist, and Alexander, who became an oil magnate....
...It, too, will be sited in a garage also designed by the modernist Konstantin Melnikov....
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