Some superb playing from the winner of this years much sought after Royal Overseas League Competition.
It was last October that after listening to 32 pianists playing in the Beethoven Festival at St Mary’s. I was asked which of all the fine performances of the complete sonatas remained in my memory. It was without doubt this Waldstein Sonata that we heard today from George Todica.
There was absolute authority with rhythmic drive and clarity allied to a technical command of extraordinary perfection. It was just these qualities that were present today but there was something even deeper about his playing especially in the introduction to the last movement.
