Nikolai Demidenko – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonNikolai Demidenko's all-Schubert programme consisted entirely of music written in the last 18 months of the composer's life, with a first half comprising the Four Impromptus D899 and the Three Piano Pieces D946, and the second devoted to the C minor Sonata.Throughout, the Russian pianist's platform manner remained perfectly contained, without a hint of unnecessary movement or any suggestion of advertising his musical intentions by visual means. Indeed, so inward and inti...

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