CD Reviews

Piano News | Issue 2/09

Mendelssohn Schubert Brahms – Review

David Theodor Schmidt is widely regarded as one of the greatest hopes among the young German pianists, and so far his development up to an exclusive contract with Sony is indeed promising. His first recording for Sony makes truly captures the listener’s attention. The recording shows a rare familiarity with Romantic music... Schmidt sings Mendelssohn’s Songs without words with a dreamy-heartfelt tone, gives Schubert’s Impromptus an air of mystery and finally expresses the melancholy of the late Brahms sensitively and sophisticatedly. The fact that Schmidt plays a Bechstein grand piano fits well into the image of a pianist who grew up in the magical kingdom of romanticism and exactly knows how to recreate the sound world of a former era.

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