Masterly playing at the RCM today with Jose Navarro Silberstein’s Artist Diploma Final Recital
Astonishing range of colours and invention in CPE Bach’s extraordinary Fantasy in F sharp minor .
A truly masterly performance of Schumann’s Davidsbundler,what it missed in charm and grace it gained in Beethovenian drive and searing intensity .
But it was the Ciclo Brasileiro that was truly mesmerising as he seduced and ravished the senses with the red hot intensity of the barbaric dance rhythms. I have not experienced the like since Rubinstein would turn ‘baubles into gems’ of his friend and prodigy Villa Lobos .
These were more that just gems but jewels in a crown to cherish for a lifetime.

Jose Andres Navarro at St James’s Piccadilly