Efisio Aresu at Westminster Abbey for the Keyboard Trust
A review by Angela Ransley
The Westminster Abbey Summer Organ Festival returns once again with its fabulous mix of celebrity recitals and fresh faces on the Young Artists Platform.
This year the Keyboard Trust presented 26-year-old EFISIO ARESU from Sardinia whose steady ascent from the Conservatoire in Cagliari has led to his current post of Sub-Organist at the Anglican All Saints Church in Rome combined with advanced studies at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music under Roberto Marini.
The Westminster Abbey organ is a majestic instrument of five manuals and 94 stops offering a complex range of solo and combined registration. It is a daunting task for an organist to fly from another country and create a compelling recital on such an instrument with just one three-hour practice session. Efisio showed himself more than equal to the challenge, bringing a concert of rich colour, excitement and much -needed Italian warmth to lacklustre London.
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