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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTchaikowsky\u2019s The Tempest must surely be the master\u2019s\ndreariest offering. This was only the second time that The Tempest has appeared\non a WASO program. I hope never to listen to it again. Just the other day, the WASO\u2019s fine playing of\nextracts from The Nutcracker ballet emphasised yet again its delightful\nessence. It is still as popular worldwide as ever \u2013 but The Tempest score and\norchestral parts should be placed in the darkest, dustiest corner of the WASO\u2019s\nlibrary \u2013 and left there indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behzod Abduraimov hails from Tashkent in Uzbekistan \u2013 and he plays the piano as if it was invented\nspecially for him. He took a near-faultless journey through one of the toughest\npiano scores ever written, making light of its fearsome challenges with brilliance\nand high style. It was only briefly during the work\u2019s most famous variation \u2013\nNo 18 \u2013 that focus blurred briefly. That apart, Abduraimov was peerless, each\nvariation the sonic equivalent of a flawless gem. It\u2019s not often that Perth\naudiences give musicians a standing ovation but that was very much the case\nhere \u2013 and thoroughly deserved, too. The orchestra was in splendid form \u2013 and\nrightly acknowledged by the soloist in a blizzard of applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was an encore. With the pianist bathed in pale pink\nlight, he gave a faultless account of Liszt\u2019s La Campanella. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, there was more musical magic with Jaime Martin\ndrawing from his forces a superb response to Stravinsky\u2019s Petrouchka. Like\nWagner, Stravinsky was a most unpleasant person \u2013 condescending, sarcastic and\nanti-semitic. But, again like Wagner, he was unquestionably a genius \u2013 and\nPetrouchka is one of the finest fruits of that unique mind. It\u2019s scored\nmagically \u2013 both harmonically and melodically. From first note to last, the WASO players were\n– in the best sense – on their musical toes as they brought faultless rhythmic\nbite to the score. Poetry as well as\ndramatic intensity were beautifully balanced as the players responded to the\nconductor\u2019s baton. Under his direction, the score burst into life, conjuring up\nits poetry no less meaningfully as its moments of melancholy and high drama. Laurels\nto trumpeter Brent Grapes for a first rate contribution \u2013 and the same could be\nsaid of principal clarinet Allan Meyer – and Graeme Gilling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n impeccable at the piano. 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