The amazing Mr Hay ignites Grand Passion Pianos with poetry and wizardry
‘Giants of Nineteenth Century Pianism’ presented by Tyler Hay in Muzz Shah’s sumptuous Grand Passion Pianos salon. An oasis of civilised culture where all around there is the confusion of Saturday night fever in central London .
Here on Alfred Cortot’s newly restored Pleyel piano Tyler Hay kept us spellbound with transcendental performances of some of the most spectacularly difficult piano works ever written. From Czerny variations ,two nocturnes by Field, three Henselt Études a Tarantella by Thalberg and even a Symphony by Alkan, there was no stopping Tyler. An extraordinary ray of lightening immediately ignited this noble instrument ,that had once belonged to Alfred Cortot the poet of the piano.
A stroke of lightening from Czerny , played with extraordinary ease and ‘fingerfertigkeit’. But a sense of style as the variations became ever more astonishing, with feats of piano playing that made even Tyler wonder how he dared open a programme with such transcendental wizardry. Czerny, the teacher of Liszt and pupil of Beethoven was a prolific composer of over 15000 works for the piano!
