Llŷr Williams | Edinburgh classical review

Queen's HallIn a festival built around the theme of the new world, the greatest piano work yet composed in the Americas had to be included somewhere in the Edinburgh programme. But Ives's Concord Sonata is never to be taken lightly, either by pianists or audiences, and the task of playing it in Edinburgh was given to Llŷr Williams, who learned the monumental work specially for his morning recital.Mastering the sonata's hideous technical difficulties is the first challenge; conveying the complex...

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