A WELL-FILLED auditorium at the Tuned In venue for entertainment and the arts in Redcar welcomed the youthful pianist Andrea Berbegal de Dios.

A brilliant student in her final year at the Guildhall in London, she treated us to an impressively diverse programme of music, opening with a confident rendering of Mozart’s Sonata in A-minor, K331.

This is an elegant flowing work and carries all the hallmarks of Mozart’s unique genius – smooth progression with delicate embellishment occasionally building up to strong punctuating passages, she performed with total control over dark and light, soft and strong accents.

She also did full justice to Thea Musgrave’s Snapshots, brief impressionistic works on various themes. These were strikingly dramatic, some having a mysterious dreamlike quality.

Liszt’s arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Widmung was very sensitively performed. This piece is virtually a love song dedicated to Clara, Schumann’s wife, who, he tells us is “my heart, my soul, my bliss, my heaven”. It opens with a most beautiful cadenza, touchingly representing profound love.

The Spanish composer Albeniz’s Iberia Book 1 Suite brought the recital to a close, but the young pianist was not allowed to leave the platform until she obliged with an encore of Widmung.

Classical music in the area has a new name, Classical Cleveland, and heralds autumn concerts starting in October.

In addition to the regular recitals now established at Tuned In on the second Tuesday of the month, a series of lunchtime concerts is planned to take place in the Methodist church in Stokesley.

Held on the first Thursday of each month, they will also start at 1.30pm, with light refreshments available from mid-day. Details of both can be accessed online at sotherans.wix.com/ classical-cleveland or email Classicalcleveland- subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Irene MacDonald