REVIEWS

The opening Concerto Night of the Miami International Piano Festival peaked with a bracing reading of Schumann’s Piano Concerto by Reed Tetzloff. Combining artistic intelligence, immaculate technique, and daredevil bravura, Tetzloff’s playing was idiosyncratic in the best sense of the term. Leading an excellent 31-piece ensemble, conductor Hobart Earle was a full partner in this revitalized iteration of a repertoire standard.

I am old enough to remember when a performance or recording of Charles Ives’s “Concord” Sonata was an event. While a new recording may not yet be commonplace, neither is it rare. The young American pianist Reed Tetzloff has a great deal of competition, and one pianist, Marc-André Hamelin, has even recorded it twice.

The artistic intelligence he brought to that venturesome program was fully evident in a traversal of the Schumann concerto that was idiosyncratic in the best sense of the term. Right from the outset of the opening Allegro affettuoso, Tetzloff molded phrases with elasticity while never allowing the broader musical pulse to unwind...

Der junge Pianist Reed Tetzloff spricht über sein Verhältnis zur deutschen Kultur, seinen künstlerischen Werdegang sowie das religiöse Element der Musik...

Tetzloff was joined in a truly substantial performance of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 by three topnotch string players...

Charles Ives' "Concord, Mass" was revolutionary and iconoclastic when he wrote it...In Reed Tetzloff we have a giant of a pianist fully prepared to take on the formidable challenges of a superlative reading of both works...

Dimanche 20 août, pour le deuxième concert de l’édition 2022 du Festival international de musique, Hubert Wendel, le créateur et directeur, avait invité Reed Tetzloff. C’était la première fois que l’artiste américain prenait part à l’événement.

Since 1999, we have presented the debuts of more than 60 outstanding pianists, a handful of whom have been able to reach a level that is truly, internationally superior. Reed Tetzloff joins those few. His performance on January 23 was exceptional...

The formidably gifted American pianist Reed Tetzloff’s recital avoided the most obvious and overplayed works in favor of the new and the challenging...

Communicating gracefully and intelligibly through music is a gift that Reed Tetzloff shares with the composer whose music he here plays with uncommon perceptiveness...

Tetzloff gives us a Schumann that is remarkably clear of the hackneyed, the over-done, the grandstandingly frenetic..

This well-recorded release is the best Schumann recital from an American pianist in years...