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# Review: Guiseppe Guarrera at The Hub at St Mary’s
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/review-guiseppe-guarrera-at-the-hub-at-st-marys/
- Published: 2019-11-11T09:31:44.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-11T09:32:08.000Z
- Description: The award winning classical pianist Giuseppe Guarrera gave a masterclass in piano dynamics when he played for an attentive Lichfield audience at The Hub at St Mary’s.
- Author: Ben Macnair
- Tags: Reviews, What's On, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:18

The award winning classical pianist Giuseppe Guarrera gave a masterclass in piano dynamics when he played for an attentive Lichfield audience at The Hub at St Mary’s.

![Giuseppe Guarrera. Pic: Kaupo Kikkas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/giuseppe-guarrera-credit-kaupo-kikkas.jpg)

Giuseppe Guarrera. Pic: Kaupo Kikkas

With a programme that included Bach, Chopin, and Prokofiev, this was not going to be an evening of relaxation.

The acoustics at St Mary’s showed the music of to a beautifully high standard, moving as it did from the thoughtful opening moments of Bach’s Chaconne Partita No 2 in D Minor, to the pieces more flamboyant chordal parts.

Prelude and Norturne for the Left Hand Alone by Alexander Scriabin was a masterclass in piano and pedal control, and the full range of a pianist’s left hand, using partial chords, dynamic after-thoughts and a few notes to summon up a feeling of melancholia.

The more familiar Polonaise – Fantasy in A flat Major Op 61 by Chopin showed a lyrical deftness and a mastery of the form, so that both the formal elements of the piece and its more free form moments showed a cohesive tension.

Maurice Ravel’s music also featured, with three pieces from Miroirs, painting a soundscape of nature, with extensive use of eddying waves of sound and a discernible amount of humour.

The musical heavy-lifting of the evening though was the final piece, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No7 in B Flat, Op 83\. One of the war sonatas, the difficult, brooding, atonal opening painting a picture of confusion, while the second movement was more romantic and tuneful, but it too had its moments of discord, before the piece climaxes in more of jazz mood, with a 7/8 time signature.

The Hub has programmed many more classical concerts into its new season, and it is a fine venue to see talented performers in an intimate setting.