Terrific recital, very well received in Deal. 

I lack the skills  to give a proper musical critique. 

Substantial Deal audience in large Church auditorium likely to be mostly well educated retired people many of whom will inevitably be home pianists

Their silent spellbound attention therefore, is not to be disregarded – even the overheard comment ‘He’s the next Pollini’ 

J.S.Bach: Toccata BWV 911 (11 mins)
L.V.Beethoven: Waldstein (23mins)
A.Bocedi: Ninfee (4mins)
J.Brahms: Walzer op.39 (16mins) and Scherzo op.4 (9mins)

Andrea’s natural Grace serves him very well in the short perfectly pitched comments he made about the music he was to play and is matched by both grace and fire in all his playing. His final comment about being grateful to the audience for letting them hear him play this music for the first time showed rather stylish overall performance skills. Unsurprisingly he sold all CDs available for sale. 

One audience member, a well regarded composer in his eighties, was especially impressed by the Waldstein. I teased him gently with an invitation to write a critique of the recital but unsuccessfully. A conversation followed about whether  Andrea’s  tempo of the Waldstein’s first movement could be sustained. All agreed it could be and was.

The rest of the programme – Bach, Bocedi Brahms and a Scarlatti encore – constructed to leave the audience excited throughout by what they heard – grew pretty well equal exhilarated applause.

Not for nothing did Luke styles open the recital with glowing praise for the Trust  but he and others remarked how over the last four years the Trust has provided extraordinary highly talented pianists. 

Andrea could not have done better for the Trust, for himself or for the pleasure of the audience of Deal

Sir Geoffrey  Nice