Future Stars Shine in Moscow

 

George Loomis FINANCIAL TIMES 

 

 

“….when the orchestra assigned to accompany the cello finals bowed out of playing Prokofiev’s challenging Symphony Concerto on the grounds that it hadn’t played it in 10 years,[ Sergey] Antonov, 23, thus had to play Dvorak Concerto. It did him no harm, for he took the gold medal. At the award ceremony, he offered a polished performance of the Tchaikovsky’s Variations on the Rococo Theme that stressed its classical elements; his account of the Dvorak was reportedly firy…”