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BERNARD ROBERTS SOLO PERFORMANCES
"The playing brought out all the facets with delicacy, mischievously so in the jazzing up of the five-finger exercise basis of the first study. Roberts took visible pleasure in going through these keyboard paces, and drew some beguiling sonorities from the later pieces".
(Debussy 'Etudes' at the Wigmore Hall)
"It was a treat to encounter Bemard Roberts giving effortlessly musical and spontaneous accounts of a Haydn Sonata, Beethoven's op.7 in E flat and the great Schubert B flat, D.960 Roberts' playing of the Viennese classics has an almost startling honesty and integrity, utterly devoid of attention-seeking effects; he gives you the music tout court, with wisdom, insight and humanity".
"Roberts is not just a strong pianist commanding a steely forte, melting pianissimo and all the rest of it - he makes music not for effect but to communicate its meaning. He played everything as if he simply had to share his love of it with us".
"I have rarely heard a reading of the second book of Debussy preludes which so sharply characterised every one of the twelve. Roberts's playing was luminous from first to last".
"Truthfulness is a word that comes to mind when you hear Bernard Roberts playing Beethoven. On Saturday he completed his Sonata Cycle at the Wigmore Hall, not like a mountaineer scaling the Himalayas, but rather as an evangelist telling us the news, sharply, directly, with a force that we shall not forget".
"The audience were privileged to hear one of the most powerful, utterly compelling interpretations of the Beethoven Sonata op.111 around the present time and come face to face with possibly this country's most serious Beethoven interpreter, Bernard Roberts".
"A superbly imperious account of the Appassionata marked by extraordinary clarity and precision of rhythm".
"Bernard Roberts has established beyond question his mastery as a totally committed and convincing exponent of Beethoven. The series should on no account be missed".
"The playing is both majestic and ardent, ringing with conviction and sublimely simple . . . listen to the way he unfurls the huge decorative ropes of notes in the second of the Eroica Variations!" |
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