Antonii Baryshevskyi: an impressive Wigmore Hall debut

By Frances Wilson, 03 March 2015

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“ fine chord voicing, filigree fingerwork, rhythmic vitality”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 2 March 2015

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in A major, K113

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in C major, K159

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in D major, Kk96, L465

Ligeti, Musica Ricercata

Chopin, Mazurka in B flat minor, Op.7 no.1

Chopin, Mazurka in C major, Op.56 no.2

Chopin, Mazurka in F minor, Op.68 no.4

Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: Première communion de la Vierge

Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: Noël

Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: Regard des hauteurs

Schumann, Piano Sonata in G minor, Op.22

Antonii Baryshevskyi, Piano

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Frances Wilson

A keen concert-goer, Frances is a pianist, piano teacher and blogger on pianism, music and culture.