{"id":6735,"date":"2015-03-12T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:41:48","slug":"cd-review-gramophone-magazine-on-franck-falla-and-turina-concertante-works-for-piano-with-kw-valerie-tryon-and-the-royal-philharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/03\/12\/cd-review-gramophone-magazine-on-franck-falla-and-turina-concertante-works-for-piano-with-kw-valerie-tryon-and-the-royal-philharmonic\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Franck, Falla and Turina Concertante works for Piano with KW, Valerie Tryon and the Royal Philharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critic Bryce Morrison writes in the Gramophone:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers such as Balakirev\u2019sIslamey<\/i> and Ravel\u2019s Gaspard de la nuit<\/i> fell effortlessly within her grasp and here in Franck\u2019s Symphonic Variations, sandwiched between two Spanish favourites of the repertoire, she commences a series of recordings for the Somm label. Accompanied by a ringing endorsement from Somm\u2019s Siva Oke (\u2018Valerie became the yardstick by which I measured most other pianists over the years\u2019) she once more displays her cardinal qualities, her immaculate grace and fluency. Nothing is pressured or exaggerated, everything falls naturally into place. And if others \u2013 notably Alicia de Larrocha and Martha Argerich \u2013 play with greater urgency and intensity, a sharper sense of profile in Falla\u2019s ever-enchanting Nights in the Gardens of Spain<\/i>, there is no gainsaying Tryon\u2019s more intimate style and authority.<\/p>\n