Mr Antipov graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, BMus (Hons) Performance, in 2017. He has performed widely in the UK since then with local music societies and events. This was a lunch hour concert I caught sight of on the internet, as I was in London for Jenufa and the Magic Flute.
St Olave’s church is one that’s worth a visit for its own merits as well – near Aldgate tube station, there’s a memorial to Samuel Pepys there
Mr Antipov played Liszt (two pieces from the Annees de pelerinage, (Troisieme annee), a display piece by Chopin (variations on Mozart’s ‘La ci darem la mano’) and Ravel’s ‘Gaspard de la nuit’. And he did so from memory, which was little short of astonishing in the Chopin piece, which is quite substantial – 20 minutes or so – and with sprays of notes in every direction. Indeed for me the Chopin piece was the most enjoyable. Somehow I never warm to any of Liszt’s music, and the piano pieces here seemed very much going-through-the-Romantic-notions. The Ravel was more interesting but I got lost at points…..
Still, not a bad way to spend a lunchtime, and I thought Mr Antipov was a very interesting player
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