He played Beethoven, Schumann, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Bartok and Rachmaninoff, as well as works by Mozart and Beethoven with Japanese orchestras.
"He plays Chopin as a pole, Debussy as a Frenchman and Prokofiev as a Russian master" wrote the Politiken of Copenhagen.
Just about, but with a nice touch of perversity, this gifted young pianist has chosen to play Schumann and Prokofiev, and should have the scraped knuckles to prove it, come spring.
It happened that Maria had been given a recording of Byron Janis playing Prokofiev, which moved her so much that she used to listen to it while she painted and drew.
Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring.
This evening at 9 Mr. Guralnik plays Brahms and Prokofiev with the violinist Michael Webster and the flutist Leone Buyse.
So he played Prokofiev when the composer was out of favor, but he also played at Stalin's funeral, where he was more disturbed by aesthetic crudities than anything else.
"Alexander Ivashkin plays Prokofiev" (Double CD).
Under Gustav Meier's baton, the orchestra plays Mozart, Prokofiev and Stravinsky at 8 P.M., following a pre-concert lecture at 7 P.M. (632-7230).
A third talk-show appearance, on "David Letterman," backfires when Mr. Letterman plants people in the audience to yawn and fidget while Mr. Sultanov plays Prokofiev.