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Daniel Tong
Piano
- Frank Bridge Songs and Chamber Music, Dutton Epoch
- Gramophone"Tong, whose cultured pianism affords unqualified pleasure throughout"
- Derby Chamber Music: Alec Frank-Gemmill, Florence Cooke, Daniel Tong
- The Derby Telegraph, 10/3/10
"Lennox Berkeley's Trio got a beautifully turned performance combining muscularity and elegance, passion and thoughtfulness, with the concluding set of variations sharply characterised"
"Florence Cooke and Daniel Tong played Beethoven's A minor Violin Sonata Op 12 no 2. They brought a fine sense of playfulness to the first movement and quiet dignity to the sombre recesses of the second"
Jeremy Thurlow's horn trio Orion, receiving its second performance....... A very impressive piece"
"Brahms's Horn Trio is one of his most deeply personal, and the players dug deep into its many expressive layers. ....their power and drive in the second and fourth movements offset their profoundly searching treatment of the third movement's sorrow and introspection"
- Alec Frank-Gemmill (French Horn) and Daniel Tong (piano) - Feb 2010
- Ben Ridler
"There was the added pleasure on this occasion of hearing, as one rarely does, the French horn as the featured solo instrument"
"the result was an imaginative and varied evening of contrasting colours and moods"
"Daniel Tong’s finely calibrated performance of Beethoven’s Sonata in F sharp Op.78... added depth and range to the programme"
- A Most Memorable Recital
- Robert Matthew-Walker - Musical Opinion"an astonishingly successful occasion, in which Jennifer Pike was partnered by Daniel Tong.""Elgar's Sonata received a deeply musical performance was both musicians' total grasp of this fine yet demanding composition. A most memorable recital."
- A Natural-born Stylist....Uncommon Panache, Fluidity and Spontaneity
- Douglas Cooksey - Classical Source"For once one really had the sense that both players were so in tune and responsive to each other that they were able to play together with a rare sense of freedom.""What was rather remarkable – whether in the elliptical and elusive Debussy sonata, or the almost nightclub-like accompaniment to the fourth of Prokofiev’s Melodies, or the richly-voiced Brahms – was the way in which Daniel Tong succeeded unobtrusively and with the minimum of fuss in finding the individual tone of voice for each of these very different pieces. A natural-born stylist.""...playing with uncommon panache, fluidity and spontaneity; they achieved a smouldering volatile intensity entirely appropriate, the piece’s rapid swings of mood and tempo caught on the wing. Edge-of-seat stuff and totally convincing.""Tong’s accompaniment was particularly remarkable here: full-toned, rich, fluid but never heavy or hectoring, an object lesson in how to find the right tone of voice in this music."
- Not the Notes which Count, but the Way You Play Them
- The Evening Standard"It's not the notes which count, but the way you play them. Tong displayed a versatile touch. Sally Beamish's Piano Sonata had golden clusters in the lento and a roaring bass in the presto"
- Much Musicality to Offer....He Will Go Far
- David Allenby - Musical Opinion"Daniel Tong was relaxed yet involved, and contributed the greater part of the atmosphere to each of the performances. Particularly impressive was his handling of the Janáček, where the busy textures and pungent ostinati needed careful balancing with the violin. There was much thought given to the internal weighting of chords, such as in the Adagio of the Brahms Sonata, and to the characterisation of groups of material in the Lutoslawski which created a febrile tension to the performance as a whole.""This is an accompanist who has much musicality to offer, without hogging the show. He will go far."