CD Reviews
Financial Times Germany | Dagmar Zurek | 19.10.2007
Financial Times Germany
Classical – David Theodor Schmidt with »Bach Reflections«
FTD-Rating: 4 out of 5 Points
Nobody knows for which instruments he has originally composed his »Wohltemperiertes Clavier«. Did Johann Sebastian Bach write these works for a harpsichord, a clavichord, or an organ? Never mind, young pianist David Theodor Schmidt in any case succeeds in taking advantage of all the tonal possibilities of a modern grand piano and adequately renders Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in B flat Minor. Intense, expressive, lively and with a convincing concept of the work as a whole, Schmidt performs the 6th Partita by Bach and turns listening to this work into a tonal experience as well. Two additional pieces were composed under the unmistakable influences of Bach: Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue in D Minor and the way too rarely played »Variations on a motif by Bach« by Franz Liszt. They provide a fitting close to this commendable recording.
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