Product Review

Alexander Raskatov is gathering an increasingly impressive international reputation, with performances of his opera A Dogs Heart at English National Opera, Netherlands Opera and Milan's La Scala. His new Piano Concerto, written for pianist and performance artist Tomoko Mukaiyama and commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, is a major addition to the repertoire. By turns dramatic, poetic, startling and tender, its a journey into new sound worlds, inspired by a childhood walk in the forest surrounded by butterflies. The work is appropriately coupled with innovative sounds from a previous Russian generation Stravinskys Rite of Spring captured live in an electrifying performance in June 2014 in Seattles Benaroya Hall.