Sonya Pigot ‘Passion and Persuasion’ at Steinway Hall
From the dynamic drive of her Beethovenian Haydn to the capricious exhilaration of Poulenc , there was always a passionate commitment of burning intensity. Finding only a moments peace with the Five Bagatelles by her co- national Carl Vine, and in the sultry improvised beauty of Granados ‘El Amor y La Muerte’ as she burst into the joyous exhilaration of Weber’s ‘Invitation to the Dance’. Almost catching the audience out with Weber’s trick ending, she played three Chopin Nocturnes with robust sentiments of a composer whose heart was yearning to return to his homeland that he could envisage with ever more desperate yearning.
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