christopheraxworthy-musiccommentary
“A master pianist and very fine musician who could spontaneously recreate all she played with such searing intensity that I could swear that her waist length hair seemed to reach her toes by the end of a phenomenal recital.”
“A pianist who has a vision that brings vividly to life all she does with a technical mastery that passes unnoticed, such is the beauty of sound and prismatic sense of colour that she spontaneously creates.”
“But the real highlight of an extraordinary recital was Rachmaninov’s 8 Études Tableaux op 33, where she turned each study into a miniature tone poem of glowing radiance with fearless abandon, as she allowed her poetic vision to command her fingers and shape each miniature study, transforming them into a Pandora’s box of gleaming jewels. A remarkable fantasy and mastery with chameleonic changes of character and colour.”
“Liszt’s vision gradually growing in intensity and desperation with playing of transcendental mastery of a performance that was the most convincing that I have ever witnessed in the concert hall.”
“A case where the disciple has overtaken her master, as streams of notes were ‘merely’ gold and silver sounds that she spread over the keyboard with the ease and perfection of the legendary pianists of the past age of Lhevine Godowsky and Rosenthal. Horowitzian streaks of lightening, there were too, igniting this cauldron of notes as we listened with disbelief to such an overwhelming display of mastery.”