Alessio Toneli at the British Institute of Florence
‘On the crest of the wave’
A room with a view shared with a recital by the young Alessio Tonelli as part of his Keyboard Trust prize awarded by Vitaly Pisarenko ( an emeritus KT artist ) at the Recondite Armonie competition in his home town of Grosseto. A programme he had already played with great success a few months ago at the Tuscia University in Viterbo.
Beethoven op 109 Sonata , the first of his final trilogy, was played with fluidity and extraordinary musical maturity.The Brahms early Scherzo op 4 written in the midst of his Sonatas op 1 op 2 and op 5 which Schumann described as ‘veiled symphonies’. It was give a performance of orchestral colour where this 1890 Bechstein could reveal all the Daguerreotype colours that lie hidden within its noble framework, revealed only to those that delve deeply into its depths. Chopin’s Third Ballade played with youthful simplicity, untainted by the so called Chopin tradition as Alessio allowed its pastoral beauty to unfold with elegance and nobility.
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