Axel Trolese in London for a live stream performance for the Keyboard Trust. A young musician mentored by Benedetto Lupo and Louis Lortie is certainly worth hearing and he certainly did not disappoint today.
Four of the most complex works for the piano, either for reasons of breaking with tradition or coping with transcendental demands, that saw this young artist fearlessly and sometimes even recklessly in total command.
A Chopin first ballade played with beauty and simplicity and if it could have had a little more time to breathe it was surely the same youthful passionate outpouring with which the young Polish emigré would have stolen the hearts of the noble ladies in the Parisian salons.
Shorn of all traditional rhetoric it was a refreshing example of how Chopin’s own aristocratic passion can still speak so eloquently without any external intrusion from lesser hands.
As Barbirolli said of the youthful Jaqueline Du Pre; ’if you don’t play with that sort of passion in your youth what do you pare off in old age?’ With Jaqueline we were sadly but to catch an all too short glimpse but with Axel this is obviously just the beginning of a long and fulfilling career.
The Keyboard Charitable Trust For Young Professional Performers.
Top Menu
The Keyboard Charitable Trust
the Keyboard Trust identifies today’s most promising young keyboard talent and enables them to perform in many of the most important music centres in Europe and the Americas.
