Murray Perahia – review

Barbican, LondonThere are two kinds of great pianist: those who make you aware of their interpretative choices, where part of what you listen to is the brilliance of their thinking; and those where you forget that any interpretation is involved. Murray Perahia is of the second kind. So perfectly weighted and balanced is every note against every other, so even is the sense of line and counterpoint, that music's beauties appear discovered rather than wrought, fashioned by nature rather than man.It...

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