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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 | Alexandre Kantorow w/ Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Lahav Shani

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Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 | Alexandre Kantorow w/ Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Lahav Shani | George Enescu Festival | | Bucharest Palace Hall Recorded from public broadcast. Enjoy! Please subscribe for more content like this! Cheers! ___________________________________________________ On a summer evening in 1912, Sergei Prokofiev, a gangling 20-year-old stepped onto a Moscow stage to jolt the world with his First Piano Concerto. It was greeted with hisses, boos, and catcalls by the majority, against wild cheering from a vocal minority. A year later, the composer-pianist introduced his Second Piano Concerto in the resort town of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg. The critic of the Saint Petersburg Journal wrote of the event: “Prokofiev, a youth with the face of a high school student, takes his seat at the piano and appears to be either dusting the keys or trying out the notes to see which are high and which low...

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