Music: A Polonaise without Fantasie/Bernard d'Ascoli/Wigmore Hall

The Independent - London | January 5, 1996| | Copyright

Wintry gusts drove hard over London on the last Wednesday night of 1994, yet even by 6.30 the Wigmore Hall foyer was packed with fans of Bernard d'Ascoli, a pianist who, although much respected and still only in his mid-thirties, is not well repr esentedon records. The programme, too, was irresistible: "Chopin's last five years: the complete piano works", a celebration of melodic richness, harmonic ingenuity and much meaningful counterpoint. And it was indeed a case of "standing room only", as t he French-born d'Ascoli - tall, reserved and blind - edged around the piano, eager to launch into ...

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