reviews
Concert Review, London, 4/4/2009, Royal Festival Hall
this ‘new’ concerto is very much in the same vein, played here with conviction and panache by Roberto Prosseda.
Bufalini has created a very attractive work, full of the bravura and brilliance that one expects of a 19th-century romantic piano concerto, with lots of familiar question-and-answer rhetoric between soloist and orchestra and bundles of finger-bending virtuosity.[...] They [Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos] are pleasant and elegantly crafted, with plenty of dazzling display and thrilling passagework, and this ‘new’ concerto is very much in the same vein, played here with conviction and panache by Roberto Prosseda. At the end of the first movement, there is a suggestion of that characteristic Mendelssohnian febrile nervousness, and the Andante is truly enchanting...
Peter Reed
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