Very satisfying debut recital at Verbier
This is Adam Laloum's debut performance at the Verbier Festival, the recital being recorded in 2010 just one year after his winning of the 2009 Clara Haskil competition.
Laloum's playing can reasonably be described as expressively lyrical and that description would fit all the music that he plays in this recital. His technique is impressively faultless and his familiarity with the keyboard enables him to concentrate on the performance with scarcely a single glance downwards at the keys or his fingers.
The recital starts with Schumann's Davidbundlertanz and immediately one is aware that the interpretation is in safe hands with every nuance depicting the characters and contrasts between Florestan and Eusebius brought effortlessly to our attention. The other main piece in the recital is Schubert's 18th Sonata, which again, is given a gently expressive reading. Between these two items are a couple of Debussy's Preludes where `General Lavine-eccentric' is given with a...
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