★★★★★
In a witty and eloquent blog post last year, pianist and newly minted MacArthur Fellow Jeremy Denk made the case against Bach's "Goldberg Variations," singling out the piece's flawlessness as its greatest flaw. One could make a similar objection to Denk's new recording. It's so sparkling, so suave, so emotionally rich and so playful that after a while the listener almost begins to long for a misstep of some kind. No chance...
- www.sfgate.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
This review will not please Jeremy Denk. Let me make clear: The prodigiously talented pianist has turned in a brilliant, inspired document of two equally genius and inspiring keyboard compositions. Of that, I'm sure he'd have no gripe. But in telling you why this recording is required listening, I can't help but succumb to the four things Jeremy Denk hates most about music writing...
- dustedmagazine.com
2012-08-06
★★★★★
Classical On his first recording for Nonesuch, the formidable pianist Jeremy Denk offers a meaty combination of György Ligeti's Etudes and Beethoven's final sonata, Op. 111. The argument he's making is a compelling one, linking the timeless expansiveness of Beethoven's late style with Ligeti's way of getting at similar horizons by eliding the beginnings and endings of his short piano studies (Beethoven's late Bagatelles would have made an interesting complement)...
- www.sfgate.com
2012-06-04
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