Concert Review by Ateş Orga
Esteemed record producer and writer Ateş Orga wrote quite some review of Zhonghua’s Liszt First Piano Concerto:
"Late on October the 31st a sixteen-year-old from China seized destiny. Zhonghua Wei. I haven’t heard such a roof-raising account of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto in years. Golden Age blaze and magic, new-world facility, fused into a single cosmic canvas. Powered, thespian projection, delicacy and poetry, octaves caressed as much as thundered. Chords and bass lines hewn out of marble, songs and fioritura spun fine as silk. Noble vistas, sweeping panoramas, fairy candles, massive Roman columns supporting the edifice ... a rare order of precision, discipline and glowingly charged emotional maturity coupled with aristocratic body language. Controlled yet free. Everything placed, nothing pushed, the touch elegant, the action refined, not a harsh sound to be heard nor a crude affectation to be seen. Music, Wei says, is about “carrying life, history, and feelings”. Indefinably, that’s what we got. This was a high-octane, high-Romantic experience, the ‘real’ thing, conversant with Lisztian style and cadence, in natural harmony with the culture of eras past."
Sincerest gratitude! Read the full review here.