john grant

Miraculous results with those pre-recorded notes

16-Jun-2005 08:49:02 PM
Reviewer: AListener

I don't know how John G. does it, when processing these through, but the tonal qualities of stress and decay, the legato between notes, the building of line, the relationship between lines, are just amazingly brought out in a way most pianists would like to be able to do as effectively live, especially with Bach.

-- Andrys

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a man who knows

19-Mar-2005 03:45:37 AM
Reviewer: PeterStgt

... to play the piano :-)

even if i don not aggree always with his chopin...

his Bach ( german: kleiner Fluss = little river ) is like it should be... it s an OCEAN

dear john,

you know i love your playing,

so good luck to all your musical ( ad - ) ventures.

Many greetings from Germany

Peter

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Not a bad performance, average.

05-Mar-2006 10:01:25 AM
Reviewer: Piano 1

I will review two pieces in detail, the first of which is the Minute Valse by Chopin.

Here the pedalling was all over the place and the treble melody was not coming through as clear. Pedalling - too much blurring. Not a dramatic enough ending either.

The trintesse study was far too slow especially before the mood change the two grace notes were played far too slow.

In general piece too slow. Mood of the peice not being completely conveyed. The peice name "so deep the night" needs a velvety texture and the listener didn't recieve that. However in general a good sense of phrasing and dynamic control.

Overall all 3/5 star performance, because of awareness and control.

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