Review of Keyboard Trust tour of Italy closing concert

Concerti,the F.O.R.M. closes on a high note.Review from Pesaro Newspaper 6th May by Ivana Baldassarri.Trans by Christopher AxworthyThe beautiful thing about culture is its capacity to link andharmonise thought, emotion, projects and happenings even at a distanceof time; it is the golden thread, the inscrutable link that bringstogether genius and simple man in the difficult tasting of life. Themusic, one knows, is one of those magic carpets that allows one tomanage, with dignity, dreams and wishes and it is for this that wePesaresi are grateful to the Concert Society and all its members forestablishing between us and the music a strong and faithfulrelationship via the splendid concert seasons that have existed at theTeatro Rossini for the past 55 years.The closing concert of the 2014/2015 season brought together at theRossini theatre not only the Orchestra Regionale delle Marche that hasbecome the pride of our region,but two internationally famous youngartists. The Anglo- Australian Jayson Gillham and the EnglishmanAlexander Ullman performing the works of two great composers, Rachmaninoff andTschaikowsky, that join together the 18th and 19th centuries thanks totheir capacity to link virtuosity with emotion.Great and spectacular the performances as always superbly directedby "our" Federico Mondelci at the helm of the FORM.The first part Rachmaninoff's fourth Piano Concerto in G minor op 40. Acontroversial musician, superb and seductive craftsman, capable ofuniting Moscow with Hollywood, arousing enthusiasm.Interpreted with powerful virtuosity and precision by JaysonGillham, who showed he could mix the romantic eloquence with thedazzling aggressivness of the ending, touching the late romanticrhetoric with a learned sensibility of someone who knows how toennoble the score with passion and depth of feeling.In the second part the Concerto for piano and orchestra n.1 in B flatminor op 23 by Petr Illic Tschaikowsky, versatile and varied, alwaysdominated by a fluctuating tension between innocence anddespair, gracefulness and delusion, poet of innermost emotions uptofrenzy, that the young pianist Alexander Ullman interpreted with allthe necessary qualities for Tschaikowsky, which are,for example,thestrength that the opening chords require, the retreating into intimatefeelings and ornate virtuosity; astonishing the phrasing and thefearless way he threw himself into the most difficult passages.Unending applause by a moved and grateful public, multiplied with eachencore, high wire virtuosity from the two young curly hairedsolists, that no evening suit could hide .The concerto was made possible thanks to the contribution of the Banca dell'Adriatic.