Jonathan Ferrucci plays Bach for Fidelio
‘A Giant for a Genius calling the English to account’
Jonathan Ferrucci playing three English Suites at Raffaello Morales’s Fidelio. A ‘tour de force’ of mastery and mystery as he unravelled suites 3,4 and 6 in a dense spiral of knotty twine played with dynamic energy and at times searing intensity. Beginning with the familiar chords of the G minor Prelude and finishing with the obscure density of the D minor gigue it was hardly surprising that it was in the Sarabandes that Jonathan’s deep understanding of Bach was tinged with the profound aristocratic intensity of universal commitment that touch us so deeply.
