
Several pianophile friends of mine disparaged David Fray’s Bach Goldberg Variations, relating it to Lang Lang’s unabashedly affetuoso recording. So did a reviewer colleague whose
When Evgeni Koroliov & Co’s recording with the six multiple-keyboard concertos of Bach, performed on modern instruments, came out earlier this year, it became the
David Fray’s previous Schubert release containing the Moments musicaux and D. 899 Impromptus crossed the thin line between interpretive refinement and mannered micro-managing. Happily, that’s
Have you noticed today’s epidemic of talented pianists suddenly transforming into musical micromanagers? David Fray is the latest victim, or perhaps I should say the
Although I’ve admired David Fray’s crisply articulated, neo-Glenn Gouldian solo Bach playing live and on disc, this release containing four of the composer’s keyboard concertos
On evidence here, David Fray is an excellent musician, technically very well equipped but willing to place his virtuosity entirely in the service of the