![]() ![]() “You can really hear the folk influences that Sibelius puts in,” said Maxim. ![]() Sibelius’s is in F major, written in 1893 Khachaturian’s is in E flat, written in 1961. The two pieces were the piano sonatas-the sole piano sonatas-of Sibelius and Khachaturian. I’m gonna be playing two pieces that are criminally underplayed.” His teenage enthusiasm and naturalness were endearing. Introducing his recent recital, he said, “Hey, everyone, this is Maxim. In 2017, when he was fourteen-the same year as his Rhapsody experience-he played the Rachmaninoff D-minor concerto-“Rach Three”-with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in Saint Petersburg. ![]() Maxim Lando has won a passel of awards, and he has played all over, though he is still in his teens. At some point, Maxim was taken under the wing of Lang Lang (a lavishly gifted artist, despite his bizarre nights). His parents are Pippa Borisy and Vadim Lando, who are the co-directors of the Great Neck Music Conservatory on Long Island. When I was a baby, I spent hours a day listening to my mom teach her students.” Maxim Lando was born in 2002. “My mom is a pianist and my dad is a clarinetist. “My parents run a music conservatory, and I was practically born there,” he once said in an interview. (Many such nights, I mean-although I wish him plenty of grandchildren, too.) And it was a night to tell his grandchildren about. “It was appalling-absolutely appalling.” But that was not the fault of Maxim Lando. “The less said about this performance, the better,” I wrote. On one piano were Lang Lang and Maxim (then fourteen) on the other was Chick Corea. In Carnegie Hall, he was one of the three pianists in an arrangement for two pianos and orchestra of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Lando participated in one of the strangest performances I have ever heard or witnessed. A t the Morgan Library in New York, Maxim Lando played a recital, under the auspices of Young Concert Artists. ![]()
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