Vadim Rubinskiy at Bargemusic

Bargemusic is a chamber music concert hall-cum-barge tethered to the pier alongside the Brooklyn Bridge at Fulton Ferry Landing. Yes, it's actually a ship, and, yes, it rocks with the water during the performances.

Up and down we bobbed as we watched Vadim Rubinskiy play the heck out of the piano, grimacing and gesticulating and, at one point, raising his arms in a victory salute. He was brilliant, lighting up Liszt and Bach and Schulz-Evler and his own fiery compositions. At the end, the audience demanded three encores --- no one was ready to return to steady ground.
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