Murray Perahia – review

Barbican Hall, LondonThis was, in many ways, a typical Murray Perahia programme: works by five of the keyboard's greatest composers, plus an encore by a sixth, all knitting together to form a satisfying whole, yet containing only one real showpiece. Lesser or less secure pianists might feel the need to remind us of their technical mastery, but not Perahia.Nor did his intellectual approach ever clamour for our attention, for all that it was ever-present. The Bach with which he opened – a dreamy...

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