Pavol Breslik also did not turn his back on Liszt.
Katz’s complete Chopin Nocturnes proves a triumph at Miami Piano Festival
Dreams of love, one after another.
Amir Katz is an interesting Chopin player. He is a sensitive and mature artist. His reflections on each of the nocturnes always are thoughtful. He has an elegant sense of touch and voices his chords warmly.
Frédéric Chopin: Die Nocturnes
It takes courage to assemble a concert programme for a Sunday morning exclusively made up of “Nocturnes”, that is, “night pieces”, but the gamble paid off.
“[…] the absolute highpoint of this season’s 7th symphony concert.”
[…] And so the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19, was the absolute highpoint of this season’s 7th symphony concert. Responsible for a significant portion of this was the Israeli pianist Amir Katz (b. 1973).
Solingen: Pianist Amir Katz Gloriously Unpretentious
[…] one can well attest of Katz that he has helped give tonally sumptuous, nuanced expression to the “potential of the cantabile” in Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words Op. 19, 30, 38, 53, 62, 67, 85, and 102 on this double CD.
Frédéric Chopin: Die Nocturnes
Songs Without Words, but with Abundant Brilliance
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy:
Songs Without Words
Masculine and Unsentimental
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy:
48 Songs without Words
Amir Katz (piano), Gasteig, Munich, 18.1.2009 (BM)
“You have to do it with love”
Amir Katz Plays Demanding First Master Concert in the Stadthalle
Piano Concert with Addictiveness: Amir Katz Awes
“Whoever has already heard pianist Amir Katz knows that when he plays, there is the danger of addiction.” Unna. Whoever has already heard pianist Amir Katz knows that when he plays, there is the danger of addiction.
A High-End “Audio Book”
Hörde. Amir Katz afforded the visitors to the first piano concert of the new season in the Hörde Bürgersaal a seldom heard listening experience: the complete Songs without Words of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
