Anna Fedorova's Rach 2

"Last Sunday, the Palau de la Música was overcome with emotion by Anna Fedorova's performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Every chord, every note, every orchestral flourish... sent a shiver through our bodies, bringing tears to our eyes. Fedorova's touch is exquisitely delicate; her ivory hands seem to barely touch the keys, yet with immense gentleness she coaxes a unique and extraordinarily rich sound from the piano. Her interpretation of Rachmaninoff's concerto is romantic to its core, soft and brilliant, even in the fastest passages, where Fedorova's phrasing is almost cosmic."

"If Fedorova has hands of ivory capable of drawing sounds of unprecedented color from any piano, she demonstrated it in the first encore: Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 32, No. 5. Not even Horowitz could achieve such a sound with this prelude! I have never heard phrasing as clear, delicate, and precise as Fedorova's in this Prelude, which is like a silence itself. The second encore, Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance, left the audience speechless at the rhythmic mastery and power with which Fedorova interpreted it."

Dr. Eloi de Tera, lohengrin.cat

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