Mikhail Kambarov at Steinway Hall, London
Poetic sensibility of a Master
‘The Messiaen brought tears to my eyes as the stillness and whispered sounds of heart rending significance struck deep and the pungent harmonies ,sometimes like broken glass, were of searing intensity.’
Christopher Axworthy
Mikhail Kambarov at Steinway Hall for the Keyboard Trust from the whispered delicacy of Scarlatti with a kaleidoscope of colours of intimate confessions to Rachmaninov Corelli Variations of nobility and ravishing beauty.
Fantasy musicianship and mastery combined in a performance where Mikhail took us to wondrous lands of sometimes even oriental mystery such was the poetic artistry he shared with us on a piano that I have never heard played so quietly.
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