Nicholas Kenyon 

Something Almost Being Said: Music of Bach and Schubert – review

Nicholas Kenyon admires the spirit of this coupling of Bach and Schubert, if not its execution
  
  


"Something almost being said" is the Philip Larkin quotation used as the trendy title of this CD by piano's new mood star Simone Dinnerstein. The coupling is apt, as is Dinnerstein's linking of the narrative, vocal quality in both the Schubert Impromptus and the Bach Partitas – the Schubert almost a singing symphony in its wonderful four linked movements, while the Bach's dance movements sound as if they could be cantata arias. What is less impressive here is the actual piano-playing – perfectly tasteful but really a bit stolid, with rhythms that don't lift across the bar lines: something almost being played.

 

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