Some concerts need no introduction. Grigory Sokolov’s return to the Palau is one of them. Each recital by the Russian pianist is an act of faith in music as an absolute experience: with no concession to display, marked by an intensity that can only be experienced live, and an almost mystical communion with the instrument. The audience knows that what awaits is much more than a sequence of works: it is a radical immersion in beauty, detail, and silence. An encounter with one of the most essential and unfathomable voices in contemporary pianism.