George X Fu ravishing the senses as a young eagle descends on St Mary’s
More superb playing from Perivale.
George X Fu in a game of opposites with mirror images evoking the senses.
Kaleidoscopic sounds of subtle transcendental piano playing.
From the amazingly modern sounds of Tailleferre’s bell like Pastorale of 1919 through the Messiaenic sounds of Dutilleux to Ravel’s magical menagerie of moths birds amidst the wild swirling oceans and the desolation of the final tolling of distant bells.
It was the same luminosity of sound he brought to Rachmaninov’s beautiful G major Prelude but it was the continuous outpouring of liquid sounds in Chopin’s fourth ballade that left one breathless and uplifted.
Clad in red like a ‘young eagle who has sprung like Minerva fully armed from the head of the son of Cronus’to quote Schumann.
