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Yonty
Solomon
| “Yonty Solomon, a magnificent pianist” |
JOURNAL DE GENEVE |
| “It is with particular pleasure that I write to thank you for your performances of those ever difficult and wonderful preludes and fugues. Not only your lovely sound, but the deep love of music which illuminates your performance warmed my heart.” |
ROSALYN TURECK |
| “Pianist Yonty Solomon, a fellow of the Royal College, is a master of his art who identifies totally with his instrument. His reading of Chopin’s 24 Preludes revealed an artist in touch with the soul of the composer. In another place and time, Solomon could easily have stepped in for Chopin.” |
MELBOURNE - HERALD SUN |
| “You are a great artist, and it is an exhilaration and a wonderful pleasure and delight, not to say an intoxication, to listen to you. I have certainly heard no playing to match yours since I went to Busoni’s concerts, also at the Wigmore Hall.” |
SACHEVERELL SITWELL (from a letter) |
| “Solomon’s playing is of marvellous refinement, yet the point is the use to which it is put. His is a more inward reading…. The music’s sensuousness somehow turned in on itself, the effect quiet hypnotic. This is the kind of playing that Sorabji’s music needs. How often it gets it is another matter.” |
MUSICAL OPINION |
| “…. Solomon’s Jardin is an extraordinary experience of supper-subtle shading and refined graduations of expression, releasing us on to on an imaginative plane where, as if in meditation before the teeming detail of some Persian miniature, each event may be savoured for its own sake in a timeless continuum of contemplation… of his Sorabji performances…. this seems to me the best of all.” |
CD REVIEW – TEMPO USA |
“Yonty Solomon was fully in command (Szymanowski’s Third Sonata), shaping almost every detail with rare sensitivity yet never denying the music’s at some points almost explosive force.” |
MUSICAL OPINION |
| “Yonty Solomon is in love with sound, it is a love that unites heart, head and soul and his performance radiated the warmth and profundity of that love to everyone present. A night to remember” |
JOHN HUDSON |