Alexander Doronin at the British Institute of Florence
‘A pianist with a story to tell, painting pictures in sound with poetic mastery’
Alexander Doronin making his Florentine debut for the Keyboard Trust in the Harold Acton Library of the British Institute with a programme of Bach, Shostakovich and Gershwin.
This is a young man with a story to tell and an extraordinary palette of sounds with which he paints pictures in sound with chameleonic changes of character and colour that held a very full hall spellbound. After a programme of such sensitivity and eloquence the encore was indeed a song with out words, by Mendelssohn, of whispered undulating beauty.
