Astonished ,amazed and completely exhausted by a performance of staggering proportions by Thomas Kelly of Rachmaninov third piano concerto.
I have heard Thomas play many times over the past four years since winning so unexpectedly the Schumann prize at the RCM. I heard him recently play in Hastings this very concerto but today he was like a man possessed.
In fact it was the same unbridled passion of his teacher Alexeev whose performance in Rome thirty years ago has remained with me ever since.
The reports of Rachmaninov from my old teacher Perlemuter who would often say of Rachmaninov coming on stage looking as though he had just swallowed a knife but would then produce the most wondrous sounds he had ever heard.
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