A page turner’s view of a great concert .
Sasha Grynyuk and Petr Limonov – solo and in duo but united in their supreme musical mastery.

Lifelong friends with Petr who was glad to help out an old friend whose brother ,Alexei, had sprained his shoulder at the last minute and could not play in this long awaited joint recital.
A Schubert Fantasy that seemed too slow but gradually enveloped us all with its crystalline beauty and magisterial architectural understanding .

To say that Petr’s solo of Schubert op 90 n 3 and 4 was sublime would be the understatement of the year! Old style playing where a pianist becomes a magician as Schubert’s sublime music floated into this beautiful edifice with timeless beauty reminding me of the much missed Nelson Freire.
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Sasha’s Brahms Rhapsody op 79 n 1 was not less as he had a whole orchestra in his hands .Not just any old orchestra but the Berlin Philharmonic to say the least .
Precision with scrupulous attention to detail ,especially the pedal as you would expect from his mentor the veteran Noretta Conci-Leech a disciple of Michelangeli and co founder of the Keyboard Trust.

Two Dvorak dances united these two great artists with a decadent rubato of insinuating whispered secrets
A Bach chorale that Kurtag had transcribed for himself and his wife to play was their way of cleansing the air and thanking the numerous public after such sumptuous excesses .

Luckily Maestro Kurtag had left his own vocabulary on the shelf bowing to the superior timeless genius of J.S.B.

Petr Limonov’s masterly final recital in St Mary’s summer lockdown series

Sasha Grynyuk in Milan and Florence Mastery and musicianship combine with poetic sensibility and intelligence

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