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BBC Proms: Fray, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Van Zweden

BBC Proms: Fray, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Van Zweden

Not just a pretty face: Fray delivers a powerful Proms debut

David Fray: he looks the part and he has the hands

David Fray certainly has the locks to be a piano virtuoso (eat your heart out, Franzi). And he has the looks, the troubled brow, the pallor and a suitably eccentric manner (the Glenn Gould hunch and hum came out for all the runs). But does he have the hands?

David Fray certainly has the locks to be a piano virtuoso (eat your heart out, Franzi). And he has the looks, the troubled brow, the pallor and a suitably eccentric manner (the Glenn Gould hunch and hum came out for all the runs). But does he have the hands?

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