My review of the latest Darlington Piano Society concert, Danny Driver on 11th January, is featured in BBC Music Magazine's 'You Review' feature here . Notwithstanding the qualities of Maria Marchant and Clare Hammond, this concert was the high point so far of the current Darlington Piano Society season. My edited comments follow below. The recital programme was: Handel: Suite no. 5 in E major HWV 430 Thomas Adès - Three Mazurkas Op. 27 Beethoven - Sonata no. 28 in A major Op. 101 C.P.E.Bach Fantasie in F sharp minor H300 Schumann Fantasy in C major Op. 17 Driver briefly introduced the themes of each half of the concert. Handel’s Suite No. 5 opened the afternoon's music– enjoyable, especially the Air and variations ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’; in very great contrast to the Thomas Adès Mazurkas which followed. In these, we were treated to a taste of Adès' humour, in particular in the third Mazurka with its interwoven multiple elements. The firs
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