Chloe Mun – Refined perfection and aristocratic simplicity
A recital of Schumann and Chopin of such refined perfection and aristocratic simplicity where the music just flowed from her fingers with a control and sense of colour that was of ‘sublime perfection’.
There was passion and technical brilliance too when needed but an overall line and subtle sense of colour that belied any personal rhetoric or showmanship.
Here was someone listening so intently to the sounds she was making and was able to control her performances with a musicianship and sense of style that was unique.
Kinderszenen by Schumann were exactly that – ‘scenes of childhood’ where each piece was a miniature tone poem of a magic world that Schumann depicts with such poetry and character.
‘In slumberland’- Kind Im Einschlummern- was so beautiful because she noted all the minute detail that Schumann had indicated and the simplicity with which the final pungent harmonies were allowed to almost play themselves was indeed sublime.
Leading to the final ‘Poet speaks’- who could not have been touched here by Alfred Cortot’s magic performance of such depth and poignancy.
