Steinway 150 Celebrations
‘We could have danced all night’
An unforgettable evening with festivities that will continue until Christmas but which opened with one of the greatest works ever written for a keyboard instrument.
Danny Driver having played the complete Goldberg Variations last night in the nearby Wigmore Hall made a ‘musical offering’ of a selection of them. It was enough to hear the ‘Aria’ played with crystalline clarity and poignant simplicity with ornaments that enhanced the contours but never distorted them .Refined aristocratic playing had one wishing that Bach could have heard his masterpiece on a modern day Steinway.
