Misha Kaploukhii
A ray of sunlight illuminates the 1901 Arts Club Hattori Foundation
A warm welcome as always from Glenn Kesby and every seat in the house taken including the upstairs salon bar and terrace. All there to hear a young man who is fast making a name for himself.
I have heard Misha Kaploukhii over the past four years when as a ‘fresher’ his teacher Ian Jones invited me to hear his student playing Rachmaninov First concerto in Cadogan Hall.
I have since heard his Rachmaninov 3rd and 4th concerti as well as Liszt and Chopin second and even Brahms 2 played on Myra Hess’s prize Steinway on which she herself worked on this ‘ little concerto with an even smaller scherzo’ . Her recording of it with Bruno Walter is one of the monuments of recorded history.
Misha has been invited to play it at the Royal College next season as top prize winner of the annual concerto competition but Misha is not a competition animal he does not wish to do comparative performances, his music making is judged by his ability to communicate directly with the public.
