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The Chihara Naxos release and career acclaim from the international press
Naxos American Classics · 8.559894
Paul Chihara: Complete Piano Works
The complete piano works of Japanese-American composer Paul Chihara the Concerto Fantasy with the London Symphony Orchestra, the haiku-like Bagatelles, Four Reveries on Beethoven, and Ami for two pianos. Composed for and in close collaboration with Quynh Nguyen.
“Nguyen shows throughout a consistent and innate understanding of Chihara’s eclectic piano-writing, relishing its textural delicacy as much as its energy and the webs of allusions… Nguyen’s touch in every sense is pitch perfect; her version, with Rieko Aizawa, of Ami is arguably finer than that of the Rogés, for whom it was written! Naxos’s clear yet intimate sound completes a terrific release, one that has grown on me with each playing.
Gramophone — Guy Rickards
“They are played brilliantly by Quynh Nguyen, as are the sweetly playful Four Reveries on Beethoven.”
Pizzicato — Rémy Franck
“Both ingenious and richly evocative and beautifully and quietly played besides, this is a wonderful release.”
Gramophone — Guy Rickards
“A body of work that embraces Eastern harmonies, jazz and Russian classical ideas, Chihara’s lengthy resume of film, TV scores, orchestral, choral and chamber works is preserved well in Nguyen’s highly capable hands.”
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Career Acclaim
From the critics, across the years.
“She is a real artist; a wonderfully communicative performer obviously intoxicated with the joy of living her music and sharing it with those lucky enough to hear it spring from her soul. What a compendium of intellect, sophistication and taste!”
Harris Goldsmith — New York Concert Review
“Rarely does one hear a young artist with such a naturally flowing sense of melodic line — vivid and unforced — that permits the music to breathe uninhibited. This flexible way of playing allows poetry and emotion to expand organically. Quynh Nguyen is already a major talent of the younger generation of keyboard artists.”
Benjamin Ivry — International Piano Magazine
“A musical and expressive player sensitive and poetic, and excelling in everything that requires elegance, proportion, balance, taste, and wit.”
Richard Dyer — The Boston Globe
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