Liszt: Piano Works
Tristan Pfaff (piano)
Pfaff's awesome fingers make light work of such technically demanding showpieces...clearly a name to watch and his dexterity must be the envy of many young pianists. This is a fine disc.
Liszt: Piano Works
Tristan Pfaff (piano)
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Pfaff's awesome fingers make light work of such technically demanding showpieces...clearly a name to watch and his dexterity must be the envy of many young pianists. This is a fine disc.
About
Liszt, the virtuoso, played all the keyboard literature and travelled the roads and seas; Liszt, the thinker, nourished his intellect through his readings of Lamennais, Lamartine and Hugo, Shakespeare and Byron, Dante and Petrarch, Goethe and Schiller; Liszt, the composer of songs, indebted to Italian bel canto, the French romance and the German chorale, set texts written in six languages, not including Latin. Hesitating between pure creation and transcription, which called upon his gifts as a wizard of the keyboard throughout his lifetime, he thus paid tribute to every facet of Western art, as may be seen from this recital, or "soliloquy", to use his own expression.
Tristan Pfaff, born 1985, studies with Michel Beroff and has been doing the rounds of the International Piano Competitions, winning the Arcachon. He came third in the recent Scottish International [Oxana Shevchenko was the winner].
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Awards and reviews
September 2011
Pfaff's awesome fingers make light work of such technically demanding showpieces...clearly a name to watch and his dexterity must be the envy of many young pianists. This is a fine disc.
October 2011
Perhaps less boxy sound would have imparted a more fluid, singing quality to the second and third Liebestraüme, third Consolation and two Wagner transcriptions, yet these precise qualities result from Pfaff's sensitive pedalling and refined legato touch in the "Gondoliera"...[He] throws caution to the wind with fingers scintillatingly intact throughout the Rossini-based "La danza" and he tosses off nicely lilting filigree in the Valse impromptu.
