Adelaide Recital Review
At times during this stunning recital, Gillham played with such intimacy it felt as if the audience was eavesdropping on an artist playing for his own pleasure, writes Brett Allen-Bayes
It’s hard to believe that three years have passed since Jayson Gillham’s magnificent Beethoven cycle at Elder Hall with Nicholas Carter and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (recorded by ABC Classics). He returns with a recital of Bach and Chopin, his true specialities. The first half of the program was devoted to the music of JS Bach (mainly in the form of piano transcriptions).
Opening with Egon Petri’s arrangement of Sheep May Safely Graze, the sense of intimacy, warmth and familiarity immediately appealed with a similar sense of delicacy and masterly legato in Wilhelm Kempff’s…
