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Liszt RecitalDubravka Tomsic
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add to cartIPO Catalog#: IPOC1001
Winner of the 2003 Grand Prix du Disc of the Franz Liszt Society
Reviews
Gramophone - "A compelling, hugely impressive performance."
The Boston Globe: "A great concert leaves you with some glimpse of why you're alive. That's the experience Dubravka Tomsic brought to Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon. Her playing was emotional, searching, sublime, and profoundly moving. ... A transcendental performance."
The New York Observer: "Without question, one of the great living pianists, perhaps the preeminent successor to Artur Rubinstein, with whom she studied privately and whose hallmarks -a commanding 'singing' line, a directness of utterance and a kind of inborn naturalness - she shares."
The San Francisco Chronicle: "a masterful interpretation of Liszt."
The Boston Herald: "Her performance of [the Liszt Sonata] was probably the best I've ever experienced live in the concert hall."
The Philadelphia Inquirer: "a keyboard giant, ... her performance of [the Liszt Sonata] a benchmark."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "In her thrilling recital, she extracted every ounce of sonority and eloquence from her instrument.
Dubravka Tomsic's Liszt Recital captures this great pianist at the height of her art in repertoire with which she has achieved complete identification and unsurpassed command. Her performances of the great Liszt sonata and other works included in this recording were received with unqualified enthusiasm by audiences and critics everywhere she performed.
Featured Artists
Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels
(From BillBoard review of latest IPO release)
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have been both revered and sublimated by critics and listeners during their long and sometimes obscured careers. Make no mistake, though -- they are great musicians who somehow do not get the credit they deserve as true jazz masters. When Daniels has played more commercially oriented music, he's branded a sellout, while Kellaway's profile is so low-key, he's practically off the radar except when releasing a recording. Fact is, Daniels is as limber, facile, tuneful, and literate as any clarinet player on the contemporary scene, while Kellaway's understated brilliance is balanced by a sense of wonder and empowerment tempered by a veteran's common sense and deep wisdom. Both have made important strides in recent years to change minds and hearts with several very fine efforts in the modern mainstream idiom, but these duets recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles have to be a high watermark for them, individually and together... This is a wondrous duet date featuring extraordinary musicians taking chances and thankfully succeeding on all levels, not the least of which are in the enviable elements of pace, placement, and depth.
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