Richard Zhang at St Pancras, Euston
Power and beauty of poetic vibrancy
Richard was the 2024 winner of the Dr Weir Legacy Award – administered by the Keyboard Trust
Richard Zhang at St Pancras Euston with playing of rare sensibility and intelligence . Chopin Mazurkas played with a glowing beauty and subtle palette of colour where these ‘canons covered in flowers’ immediately revealed Richard’s power to combine intellect and soul. A crystalline clarity and beauty to the first and a delicacy to the second where trills were mere vibrations of glowing beauty with a wide palette of sounds etched out with rare sensibility. The third had a rhythmic drive but still with a luminosity and refined beauty of sound. Even the central episode of bagpipes were merely delicately placed left hand chords. The last Mazurka had a beguiling melodic line played with great freedom and a disarming beauty full of nostalgia and innermost intensity.
