Bewitched and bewildered by a shadowy pianist
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The Uzbek pianist Bezhod Abduraimov burst onto the scene a dozen years ago with a pair of outstanding Prokofiev recordings for Decca. He returns on a smaller label with a crashingly energetic account of ten pieces from the same composer’s Romeo and Juliet. His energy is so high that one fears for the unnamed piano, which plinks quite desperately at the top….
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His first name is spelled Behzod and he is one of the finest pianists of his generation.