Francesco Piemontesi – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi has been admired so widely, and tagged as a future star by so many, that it was hard to know what to expect from the 29-year-old's debut in the Southbank Centre's International Piano series. Piemontesi is certainly an artist who goes out of his way to attract attention. His platform manner is unaffected, almost bookish, and his playing is free from flamboyant musical gestures; this is considered and unfussily precise pianism, whi...

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