Mark Viner cooks a dish fit for a King
Ravishing beauty, supreme artistry and total mastery served up on a casserole by a cordon bleu maitre
Ravishing beauty and supreme artistry combined with total mastery of art that conceals art has me searching for superlatives for one of the finest most moving recitals I have been to for years.
Waldszenen that was an outpouring of subtle beauty where every note had a poignant significance .Beethoven’s Pathetique as though I had never heard it before such was the kaleidoscope of sounds and dynamic drive. An ‘Adagio cantabile’ that was a true bel canto that arose out of a sumptuous accompaniment and the central episode like a heart beating -Beethoven’s!
Alkan that was so exquisite it brought tears to my eyes as did the ravishing beauty of Chaminade’s Automne .
Liszt Pesther Carneval was breathtaking, astonishing and at the same time so characterful that it brought smiles to the face just as it brought gasps as phenomenal gymnastics were thrown off with rhetorical mastery …..and all this on what Perlemuter would have generously described as a casserole!
