Luke Jones at St Mary’s – a shining light of refined poetic brilliance
I have known Luke’s playing for many years and heard all about him from Carlo Grante when he travelled to Italy as a teenager to study with him in Calabria .By chance I was even at his graduation recital and will never forget the brilliance, allied to a musical understanding of the notoriously complex Brahms Paganini Variations.
Returning to St Mary’s to try out some new repertoire ,to have a recording of the performance which can be an invaluable help to delve even deeper into the mysteries hidden on the printed page. Luke is now a mature artist and already with many demands on his time in Warrington where he now resides, and is a much sought after teacher. Struggling with British Rail he only managed to arrive in Perivale ten minutes before the concert for a first public performance of what Fou Ts’ong used to call Chopin’s preludes – 24 problems.
