Jean the Great conquers the Wigmore Hall with his humility and genius
No doubt for me this is the finest artist before the public today .Eighty minutes in which the golden aura that surrounded him illuminated and uplifted souls as no other artist can today .
Swaying gently as the music just poured from him with a simplicity and staggering mastery.
It was just him and us immersed in a glorious outpouring of golden strands of music.
This was an artist recreating the music with an improvisatory mastery and we were held mesmerised in his spell
No external assistance from I pads which would have been unthinkable with an artist of his genius because this wild looking young man carries the music with him deep in his soul
‘Hats off a Genius’ is too little to express the emotions that his pure simple music making provokes and enriches. It was to the Barricades that he turned at the end of this musical seance as an encore coming full circle as he played it with even more searching with its beguiling insinuatingly daring harmonic changes. The Wiggies in delirium wanted even more and this humble servant of music sent us away with the most famous of all baroque pieces :Le Tic Toc Choc, played with astonishing fluidity and plucked ease – Sokolov eat your heart out!
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