Luca Lione takes London by storm
Flying in at the last minute from Potenza in Southern Italy the moment this young man sat at the piano the beauty and calm he shared with us in Scarlatti’s two movement sonata K.77 belied the passion and transcendental display of virtuosity that he was to unleash on an unsuspecting audience at Steinway Hall.
His Romantic good looks and fiery Latin temperament ignited this magnificent Steinway concert grand with performances of beauty and grandeur that astonished even Noretta Conci-Leech, assistant for many years to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli!
The Liszt expert and one of the founder trustees of the Keyboard Trust, Leslie Howard, realised that any conversation after performances of that stature were an unnecessary intrusion where music had been allowed to speak louder than words.
