DOMINION EVENING POST 2006
DOMINION EVENING POST Aug. 22, 2006 VISITING PIANIST A PURE PRIVILEGE Sonata No 26 ‘Les Adieux’ (Beethoven); Three Piano Pieces, D 946 (Schubert); Rachmaninov: Corelli Variations, Op 42, Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39 Nos 1 and 2, Preludes Op 23 Nos 2 and 5 Oleg Marshev told Charlotte Wilson on Concert FM’s Upbeat on Tuesday that this was his fifth tour of New Zealand; each managed by that model impresario Helen Collier of Taihape. Each tour involves performances in many, mainly provincial towns: this time he will have given 12 performances. One would not expect a pianist of Marshev’s calibre to undertake such a tour: he records for an international label and has played, inter alia, at the Lincoln Centre in New...

