 Dr. David McAughtry reviewed lunchtime concert, at St James's Piccadilly, in London on July 27, 2011, saying, "Portugheis, at 70 is a serious man—a piano virtuoso, teacher, and tireless antiwar campaigner, a Nobel peace prize nominee.He played "Claire de Lune" with huge tenderness as the expression of a lifetime of experience, not all of it good.I found it inexpressibly moving.