Music REVIEWS
Music REVIEWS
0 Comments | Herald, The; Glasgow (UK), Nov 23, 2009 | by MICHAEL TUMELTY
BBC SSO, CITY HALLS, GLASGOW 3/5
PIANIST Piers Lane comprehensively stole the show at the BBC SSO’s second Bohemian Rhapsodies concert on Thursday night with his dazzling, bustling, hustling and terrifically entertaining account of Martinu’s First Piano Concerto. Written in Paris in the 1920s, the motoric concerto chunters along irresistibly, exactly in the style of Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto, but with a wicked smile on its face and an alluring raise of its eyebrow. Even when Martinu goes a wandering, as he does, the music is never less than endearing.
Then Lane, having stolen the show once, set about doing it twice with a hilarious, roofraising encore in the form of Dudley Moore’s outrageous and stylistically immaculate pastiche of Beethoven on the subject of the allegedly singular anatomical attribute of der Fuhrer. The house collapsed with laughter.
The rest of the concert was not quite so irresistible. Janacek’s ballad The Fiddler’s Child is as packed with incident as any of his unique music
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