Preludes: streamed live from The Little, Southwark Playhouse
May 8, 2021 Last updated:
May 8, 2021
It’s easy enough to get immersed into a production like this. Even in its concert format, there’s something compelling about the way in which the story is told, combining spoken word and melodies, both pushing forward the dialogue, sometimes at breakneck pace, and sometimes mercifully slower. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is represented by Keith Ramsay, who gets to do all of the composer’s talking (and, this being a musical, singing) and Tom Noyes, who has the privilege of playing the piano. Keith Ramsay and Rebecca Caine, Preludes, credit Scott Rylander.