Shai Wosner
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His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Instrumental Choice
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sometimes it's like listening to two people excitedly bouncing ideas off each other; at others it's like a love duet, or even the kind of intense parting conversation in which every word counts... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Chamber Choice
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Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding many moments of illumination. —
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The Liszt becomes a meditation on a chord; the second Ives piece twinkles, glows, and glowers; the Chopin pieces are given ravishingly delicate colouring, the Gershwin emerges as a silkily-delivered... —
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Christopher Cerrone: The Air Suspended & Why Was I Born Between Mirrors?
Shai Wosner (piano), Patrick Swoboda (double bass), Argus Quartet, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
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Shai Wosner plays Haydn and Ligeti
Shai Wosner (piano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
[Wosner] responds to every twist and turn with a sense of great immediacy as well as an airy, high-stepped poise and unerring pointing-up of Ligeti’s deliciously unpredictable rhythms. —
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...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... —
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At his best Wosner is capable of freshly illuminating these sonatas, which allows me to give an unhesitating recommendation. If I had to generalize, Wosner’s playing doesn’t lean too far toward... —