Misha Kaploukhii plays Brahms’ First Piano Concerto
in a duel of intensity and overwhelming power
A young pianist on the crest of a wave, now in his final year of study with Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music, has played with this orchestra many times.Having already played Brahms ‘tiny’ Second Concerto with them he returned tonight to play the First. The Second Concerto is very much a concerto where the piano becomes part of the orchestra but the youthful first concerto is one where the piano and orchestra fight it out to the end. This, in many ways, is a piano struggling to dominate the orchestra.
