I've recorded Charles Huang several times but not sure if I recorded his first gig at Wesley at age 8. Whatever, he a local prize-winning pianist and a huge pleasure to hear on stage. This program was JS Bach, Franz Schubert and Beethoven Waldstein sonata, nicely keyed in in C major although no slouch work. The works were played with certainty and strength from memory, grand, fast and furious in busy or quick passages, intelligent and careful, not least for the intellectually satisfying Bach prelude and interplayed fugue BWV868 in B major, to contrast in key with the Waldstein. The Schubert was 2 impromptus, all heavily stated rhythms and confident melodies over. And to finish, the 3 movements of Beethoven, busy, expressive, structured, challenging through different tempi and emotional expressions. He was trying out the harpsichord as I left. Softer than a firmly played Yamaha C6 and just a thing of diverse beauty in his hands.
Charles Huang (piano) performed Bach, Schubert and Beethoven at Wesley.
This is CJBlog post no. 3,050
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