- - - Christopher
Taylor - What the critics
are saying - - -
"Those who did not attend pianist Christopher Taylor"s recital
- and there were many
of you - missed one of the finest concerts to have been
heard here in many years......
Taylor's performance came as close to complete mastery as
I can remember hearing....
We sat, rapt, in the presence
of a mystical occurrence,
an unforgettable experience.....
This young man is not
merely a rising star, he is a rising comet."
Sarasota Herald Tribune, Richard Storm, 4/10/2002
"Taylor's infallible fingers have in the past sometimes
marched with a mathematical
and mechanical precision that
suggested a parade ground at high sunshiny noon, not the
pressure systems of internal weather. It was wonderful to
hear him
play with the inwardness, simplicity,
and tenderness that he brought to the quieter movements and
moments.
In
his still-developing combination of intellect, adventurousness,
brawn, and open
feeling, he
has
emerged
as the leading American pianist of his generation."
Boston
Globe, Richard Dyer, 10/22/2002
"Before
a rapt audience at the Miller Theater on Saturday night,
Mr. Taylor, a lanky
31-year-old
pianist who graduated summa cum laude in mathematics
from Harvard,
gave
an astonishing performance of Messiaen's
complete "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus,"
more
than two hours of some of the most complex and difficult
music ever written for
the piano. And he played the
176-page score from memory......His fingers are like
search-
and-destroy unts zapping the keys, working at the behest
of his probing mind and keen
imagination. Still, there was
fancy,
beauty, tenderness and white-hot
energy in his playing.....
his performance was a highlight of the season and already
represents an astonishing achievement. And it should
only grow deeper as Mr. Taylor lives with the music
in the
future. That is, unless his restless brain has
already moved on to something else."
New York Times, Anthony
Tommasini, 2/6/2001
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