Wigmore Hall Season
Wigmore Hall

D. Scarlatti: 11 Sonatas
W. A. Mozart: Fantasy in D minor KV 397
J. Brahms: Theme and Variations in D minor Op. 18
J. S. Bach - F. Busoni: Chaconne in D Minor BWV 1004

Federico Colli – poised on the edge of the possible

The young Italian pianist brings a fantastical, probing imagination to a chewy programme

He is an artist developing at an impressive rate, and one of whom I think we’ll be hearing a great deal more in years ahead. His sound has a deep, cushioned, luminous quality at all levels and such is his control of voicing that at times you might almost imagine the piano had been transformed into an organ, with different-timbred pipes for the various registers positioned all over the hall. An illusion, of course, but a glorious one. It takes a technique and a half to make a piano sound like that - and, even more crucially, exceptional artistry to dream up the desire for those sounds in the first place.

Jessica Duchen, the arts desk.com ★★★★★

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