Beatrice Rana
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Pianist Beatrice Rana has a particular talent for building a line in ways that are both exactingly dynamic and robustly emotional.
Pianist Beatrice Rana, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yanick Nézet-Séguin, plays the daylights out of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
There are fistfuls of notes and some tremendous technical skill. But, with a couple of notable exceptions, the readings of some of the cornerstones of the solo piano repertoire by each pianist lack direction.
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