Nils Frahm review – short on harmony but texture and tone in spades

Barbican, LondonFrahm jokes about his musical limitations, but his piano solos are quiet riots that transport you to a higher planeHe might be the most popular solo pianist on earth at the moment but the Berlin-based “neo-classical” star Nils Frahm will be the first to admit that he’s not a classical pianist of any description. In this two-hour show there is little harmony or chordal development, scarcely any improvisation, and – with the exception of the jagged, nerve-...

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