Special offer. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
and music by Stravinsky and Prokofiev
Alexander Ullman (piano)
Awards:
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Record Review, 6th April 2019, Disc of the Week
The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really doesn’t help…He combines sensitivity and agility at the highest level, which...
Special offer. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
and music by Stravinsky and Prokofiev
Alexander Ullman (piano)
Purchase product
Awards:
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Record Review, 6th April 2019, Disc of the Week
The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really doesn’t help…He combines sensitivity and agility at the highest level, which...
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Since winning the 2017 Franz Liszt Competition, British pianist Alexander Ullman has appeared at many of the world’s great venues and with some of the world’s major orchestras – The Philadelphia Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic. He has worked with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Markus Stenz to name just two conductors, and performed at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Concertgebouw and Gewandhaus, Kimmel Center and Kennedy Center. For his debut album Alexander has chosen Russian ballet repertoire arranged either by the composers, or in the case of The Firebird by Busoni pupil Guido Agosti, and Mikhail Pletnev for Tchaikovksy’s Nutcracker Suite. This is a highly virtuosic programme that showcases Alexander’s extraordinary technique. His is a name to watch!
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Alexander Ullman on Russian ballet transcriptions
19th Mar 2019
The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, released last Friday on Rubicon.
Awards and reviews
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Record Review6th April 2019Disc of the Week
May 2019
The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really doesn’t help…He combines sensitivity and agility at the highest level, which should make a programme like this one the perfect vehicle. His Nutcracker comes very close to Pletnev’s own in its clarity and even tempos.
24th March 2019
Ullman’s speed, precision and pellucidity in Stravinsky’s virtuosic Three Movements from Petrushka are breathtaking. His Firebird, in Guido Agosti’s adaptation, opens with the eclat of the Danse infernale; Prokofiev’s Cinderella figures, too.
