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Llyr Williams St Cenydd's, Llangennith
THIS year's Gower Festival closed at a packed Llangennith Church with an eagerly awaited, utterly thrilling recital by Llyr Williams. He is a deeply intellectual pianist -- which is not to say his playing lacks emotion. Rather, every note, every phrase has been thought out and precisely weighted, and then re-infused with warmth, life and colour, almost as a strange new discovery. Isn't this how it should be? The result, in this seriously heavyweight programme, was some Mendelssohn by turns sonorous, massive and balmy, a Beethoven sonata beautifully shaped, even where it might have been a touch more animated, and one of the best performances of Chopin's four Scherzi that I have ever heard or ever expect to hear.See the full content of this document
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