Probably the only form of loud music which I enjoy!
I've probably only been to half a dozen recitals and I've never had a problem with the volume. Maybe I've been lucky. I think it is the lower registers which I enjoy.
Was it this sort of thing?
Carlo Curley, Lincoln Cathedral
https://youtu.be/WRK_f55o5Jk 

Your "young lad" must have been Julian Haggett.
I can't see his DOB anywhere, perhaps he's in his late twenties??
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