Ayane Nakajima at the British Institute of Florence
‘Embraceable You’ – Irresistible poetic mastery
Ayane Nakajima in a room with a view. Finishing her recital on this rainy day in Florence with Earl Wild’s ‘Embraceable You’ played with ravishing insinuating beauty. Irresistible indeed!
A C.P.E Bach played with brilliance and clarity where the rapid changes of character had nothing on Schumann. Washes of sound of rapid lightweight embellishments between the intervals of melodic recitativi Languid beauty of the second movement played with delicacy and poignant nobility and a surprise final movement all halting elegance and lilting charm.
Ayane has an extraordinary palette of sounds that with her searching musicianship could bring Tsontakis’ ‘Sarabesque’ inquisitively to life and even combine his world of gentle floating sounds with those of another dreamer, Mompou.
