ASMF/Perahia – review

Barbican, London"I'm not a conductor," Murray Perahia once told an interviewer with typical modesty. "I love to play the piano." Perahia has, nevertheless, been principal guest conductor of the Academy of St Martin's in the Fields for some years and would seem to be perfectly at ease in both roles, if this performance was anything to go by.The centrepiece was Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, which he directed from the keyboard. In some respects, this was unostentatious, no-frills Beethoven, ...

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