The outstanding pianist Yorck Kronenberg is now presenting his second CD in the Movimentos Edition – a collaboration between GENUIN and the auto city of Wolfsburg. He performs all the piano concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. This is a major undertaking that the musicians approach with great lightness and joy in playing. Subsidiary voices blossom, everything vibrates and sings out the joy and pleasure of this music. Kronenberg's grand piano is illuminated in timbres that inspire listeners, allowing the works (originally written for the harpsichord) to sound completely new and fresh – perhaps exactly the way Bach conceived them?
Gramophone
"strikingly deliberate and transparent contrapunctal dialogue between piano and strings"
Review on the magazine Gramophone by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, 1/2015
MusicWeb
"Kronenberg commands a formidable technique. Clarity and crisp articulation are a hallmark of these readings. (...) eloquence, spontaneity and freshness"
Review on MusicWeb by Stephen Greenbank, December 2014
Kulturspiegel
"Warm sound and finely applied articulation… as fresh as it hasn’t been for a long time."
Review from Johannes Saltzwedel, December 2014
SWR
"Spontaneous and deeply thought out (…) magnificent ease and musical enthusiasm"
German review from Burkhard Egdorf at the broadcaster SWR, 27.1.2015
LVZ
"A master of the keyboard", Claus Fischer, January 2015
Concerti
"For he listens to the music, giving heed to ambiguities, analyzing harmonic developments"
German review from Christoph Forsthoff in the magazine Concerti in November 2014
RBB Kulturradio
"Charming swing… with temperament, musical enthusiasm and a keen sense for nuances"
Yorck Kronenberg’s new recording is RBB Kulturradio’s CD of the Week on the 17th of November 2014.
WDR TonArt
"tremendously musical (...)
The art of articulation and phrasing (...)
Yorck Kronenberg is an insiders tip."
A contribution by Christian Schnitzler at WDR TonArt, 11.12.2014
