CIMB - 17th Singapore International Piano Festival 2010
23 - 26 June 2010, 8.15pm
Victoria Concert Hall
Victoria Concert Hall
Chopin at 200 celebrates the bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin, the composer most closely associated with the piano. All four recitals by a fascinating line-up of pianists will explore Chopin's musical innovations, his creative use of past traditions, and his influence on composers and piano music after his time.
 | "keyboard artistry on the highest level" - Miami Herald "playing that possesses urgency, personality, imagination and colour" - International Piano "a practically superhuman keyboard technique with artistic eloquence second to none" - San Francisco Chronicle "simply the most important new pianist to appear in recent years, period" - The Detroit News | |
 | "... these are among the finest of all Chopin discs, easily excelling recordings by almost all the most celebrated names in the catalogue." - Bryce Morrison, International Piano "When Pietro De Maria puts his hands on the piano, it comes spontaneously to revive an old definition: he is a poet of the keyboard." - Lorenzo Arruga, Il Giornale "... a marvellous version of Chopin's Etudes... a consistency of thought which is the hallmark of great interpreters of Chopin." - Etienne Moreau, Diapason | |
 | "Not only are his technical abilities mature and amazing, but he is returning to the kind of repertoire that made the "Golden Age of Piano Playing" golden; and he plays it with the electrifying abandon the pieces need." - American Record Guide Jan / Feb 2010 "Grosvenor's performance was so alluring, so alive to the music's poetry, and so colourfully detailed." - The Daily Telegraph "Even the most outlandish difficulties are tossed aside not just as child's play but with a seemingly endless poetic finesse and resource..." - The Gramophone Magazine | |
 | "A mesmerisingly creative talent" - The Boston Globe "Explosive emotion, exquisite sensitivity" - The Daily Telegraph "One of the most individual and absorbing pianists of our time" - The Sunday Times "...tone and touch ofhis playing are so seductive that it's easy to forget how classically correct a musician he is" - The Guardian | |
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