It's not always that I return for a concert-and-recording rerun but I did for Ida, because we share background, we chatted amiably and she played such an interesting concert on the Wednesday. I was not disappointed on Friday. There were embassy reps but not nearly the audience she deserved. The last was an investigation into the "Spanish Scarlatti", M Blasco de Nebra. This themed as Introspections so more modern, romantic, roiling and varying in tempo and presentation, but again masterly playing. Pieces from Sibelius, Faure, Busoni (he reappeared), Janacek and Ravel. All accompanied by informed introductions of backgrounds, purposes, histories and the like. Faure was written as a sightreading test at the Paris Con; two had lost family, Busoni a father and Janacek a daughter. There were masses, waterfalls of notes, repetition and variations, with and without grand gestures, order and arpeggiations, a tribute to Bach. Personal and touching and emotionally charged. Ida again played form memory, these complex and busy pieces. Then finished with not one but two encores: the Scarlatti Tarantella from the Wednesday lunchtime concert and one by de Nebra, perhaps also from Wednesday. So Ida is not just a performer but researcher and teacher. Very worthy of the return gig.
Ida Pelliccioli (piano) performed Sibelius, Faure, Busoni, Janacek and Ravel with encores from Scarlatti and de Nebra at Wesley.
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