Andrea Molteni at St Mary’s
The extraordinary clarity and mastery of a thinking musician
Some quite extraordinary playing of radiance and clarity. A technical command of such natural fluidity that makes all he plays sound so natural and effortless. A precision and brilliance that makes his playing in particular of the Sonatas by Scarlatti so scintillating and brilliant. It was indeed only as an encore that we could admire his quite extraordinary dexterity with ornaments that like tightly wound springs seemed to glisten and glow with an inner life of their own.
But it is not only Scarlatti that this young man excels in because the clarity and his superb simple musicianship illuminate all that he does. He has recently recorded an all Beethoven CD with the ‘Hammerklavier’ op 106 and as a fill up the ‘Grosse Fuga!’ greeted by the press with five star reviews.
Read more here at Christopher Axworthy’s blog
