Alberto Chines – Artistry and scholarship in Rome

Alberto Chines at Roma 3
Sweelinck’s Mein junges Leben was the first work in this highly original concert. Finishing with a scintillating performance of Rameau’s Gavotte and 6 doubles from his suite in A minor. An understanding of the Baroque style with a transcendental technique that allowed him to add ornamentation that brought them vividly to life and made them the highlight of a programme that included Haydn C minor sonata and Schubert’s last Sonata in B flat. It was the same refreshing originality that he brought to these two masterpieces that with his intelligence and musicality allowed the music to speak so simply and directly. With his strong temperament,sensibility and sense of style. The ornamentation in the aria of the double was something to marvel at on this cold winters’ evening in the Aula Magna of Roma 3 orchestra .Especially on a Schimell concert grand that he turned into a magic box of gleaming jewels. Thanks too to Mauro Buccitti turning together with Alberto Chines’s superb artistry a bauble into a gem. Thanks to Valerio Vicari, artistic director for yet another important debut after Giovanni Bertolazzi’s superb recital at Villa Torlonia earlier this week in this collaboration with The Keyboard Charitable Trust.

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