Martino Tirimo at Holy Trinity Church (From Hereford Times)

Martino Tirimo at Holy Trinity Church

12:24pm Wednesday 9th December 2009 in

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Holy Trinity Church , Hereford was the scene for the most intensive schooling of every element of the compendious world of concert-pianism, where one of the world’s greatest artists, Martino Tirimo continues apace, his monumental traversal of the complete solo piano works of Chopin. This most recent odyssey opened up hitherto undreamed of depths of existential despair as a transcendental C minor Nocturne Opus 48 the like of which have never been dreamed of in anyone's philosophy (unequivocally the finest rendition this reviewer has ever heard), a series of the tortuously difficult Opus 10 Etudes worthy of Cortot or Plante, and a final Opus 53 A flat Polonaise which was redolent of the inimitable Artur Rubinstein striding out and giving his concert-tails-coat that typical ‘pre-performance-pull’. Among such an immense treasure-trove of every conceivable element of the million-and-one things that go into the making of an artist, it is impossible to overlook Tirimo’s clarifying the disparate polyphonic strands of the immensely difficult G major nocturne Opus 37 which the great Chopin exponent Vladimir de Pachmann said took him 50 years of practice, in Tirimo’s beautiful hands, looked like the merest child’s play.

Mark Latimer The next concert in the series is on Saturday, January 30 at 4pm and the nominated charity is the Wye Valley Society. Tickets are available at the door on the evenings of the concerts at Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road or in advance from The Outback in Hereford and DS Music in Monmouth. Alternatively, call 01531 632230 to book.