Mariamna Sherling – Graduation Recital
A scintillating voyage of discovery
I have heard Mariamna play many times but never in a big concert hall. She is a player who finds it easier to be intimate in a big space ( as Fou Ts’ong would often say). And today in this hall which I used to frequent as a school boy and even heard the much vaunted debut of John Lill playing Rachmaninov third concerto with Sir Adrian Boult which had been the basis for the film ‘Shine’. In those days very few or any students could play Rach 3 or Prokofiev 2 but now since Ashkenazy made his London debut with both in the same programme they have become standard fare. All this to say that there is a standard of piano playing, thanks also to the influx of foreign students, that is much higher than ever before.
Read more here at Christopher Axworthy’s blog
