Piotr Anderszewski is a pianist with a very particular stage presence. He entered and exited the Barbican’s large concert platform with a rapid, don’t-mind-me shuffle. At a venue that revels in polychrome lighting for solo recitals, his Steinway grand and plain orchestral chair were placed in a single pool of white. He is physically undemonstrative once seated: only the
The Polish pianist is an understated presence but in his hands, a programme that also included Bach, Webern and Szymanowski, was muscular and full of ferocious energy amid meticulous playing