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Ingolf Wunder review – 'Serious muscular music-making'

LONDON Mar. 2014 - ...Wunder seems a fearless player, with a totally secure technique that he never flaunts unnecessarily, and the musical intelligence to put it to good use. ... It was difficult to imagine that the pianist who could float a line so exquisitely in Chopin could make Beethoven's variations so earthily direct and physical...or generate as much dramatic excitement in the Liszt, while ensuring that every section of the Sonata was clear within its overall scheme...A wonderful recital.

WAIDHOFEN Mar. 2014 - "Passion and elegance". His musical feeling is astonishing, his interpretation is thought through and polished down to the last detail ... His brilliant technique, the playful lightness and fluency as well as the elegant interpretation always in style were fascinating ... It was the highest art of piano playing in a romantic shape without ever being kitschy ... Superb manual abilities and highly tense, perfectly balanced intensity of his musical language. ...

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WETZIKON Feb. 2014 - [...] He shaped the attitude of the Ballades (NB: four Ballades by Chopin) lively and with sensible sound, gave each episode enough space and generated delightful phrases with nifty Rubati.

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Brussels

Two By Two

COLOGNE Jan. 2014 - [...] With the Beethoven Piano-Concerto (NB: 5th Concerto) accompanied by the Brussels Philharmonic under Michel Tabachnik he presented himself as a master of sparkling cascades, effortlessly placed martellato-octaves and especially in the second movement of deep, fulfilling, poetic cantabiles.

DUSSELDORF Nov. 2013 - A Thomas Mann at the piano. [...] The young Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder who visited the Tonhalle, is able to profoundly narrate works by both, Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin. He succeeded in a particularly impressive fashion with the bulkiest piece of the evening, Beethoven's Eroica Variations. [...]

DUSSELDORF Nov. 2013 - [...] Pianist Ingolf Wunder fascinates in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf [...] The listeners at the Tonhalle became witnesses of how much Wunder worked himself into world of the "Titan of the piano" [Beethoven]. [...] Immensely powerful, but always transparent Wunder unfolded the rhythmic and melodic richness of the composition. The slow passages had depth, the quick ones never felt stressed [...]

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Eine Schneeflocke vor dem Schmelzen retten - Klassik

LOERRACH Nov. 2013 - Pianist Ingolf Wunder bezauberte sein Publikum im Burghof mit den Eroica Variationen op. 35 und der "Mondscheinsonate" von Beethoven sowie den vier Balladen von Frédéric Chopin. Wunder näherte sich den Tasten, als gelte es, eine Schneeflocke vor dem Schmelzen zu retten. [...]

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Lörrach: Intelligenz und Poesie - Verlagshaus Jaumann

LOERRACH Nov. 2013 - [...] Er weiß, wie man phrasiert, wie man das Klavier zum Klingen bringt. Jeder Ton sitzt, er versteht Chopin. Und die Rubatokunst an der richtigen Stelle anzuwenden. So interpretiert Wunder von den vier romantischen Klavierballaden Chopins eine schöner als die andere, präsentiert sie in allerbester Technik, Sicherheit und Durchsichtigkeit und wird als Pianist zum Erzähler. [...]

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HOHENEMS Oct. 2013 - [...] Im Presto vermittelt er eine Vorahnung auf seine grandiose Technik, die sich zum Finale in der als harter Prüfstein für jeden Pianisten gefürchteten h-Moll-Sonate von Liszt imponierend Luft verschafft. Dass er bei aller geforderten Präzision der bedrohlichen Doppeloktav-Läufe und hymnisch aufbrechenden Akkordballungen in Hasard-Tempo auch den geistigen Hintergrund, die Struktur des Werkes in frappanter Klarheit offenlegt, grenzt – man muss es so sagen! – an ein Wunder.

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BUENOS AIRES Sept. 2013 - [...] To play with words, Wunder is a wonder. Born in 1985, he is certainly a bright light among young pianists: impressive command of dynamics from ppp to fff, extremely agile and fast fingers, good taste and stylistic sense. [...]

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BUENOS AIRES Sept. 2013 - [...] Pero nada impidió la sensación precisa de estar en presencia de un gran pianista, aplomado y profundo. Habrá que acostumbrarse a una nueva generación de pianistas que viene con todo entre sus dedos y también en su cabeza. Antes, había muy pocos. Ojala ahora haya muchos. Ingolf Wunder ya es uno de ellos. [...]

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VERONA Sept. 2013 - [...] L'energia è un flusso interiore che l'ascoltatore deve scoprire prima di potervisi abbandonare, perché giace in profondità. I nomi sono presagi, dicevano gli antichi. Wunder significa “prodigio", “portento": presagio molto impegnativo, ma promessa sicura per la serietà e la profondità di questo interprete, salutato dal Filarmonico al gran completo con applausi lunghissimi.

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Concerto del pianista Ingolf Wunder

VERONA Sept. 2013 - [...] Chiude il programma la Sonata di in Si minore di Liszt, il mastodontico “masterpiece” è forse meno nelle corde di Wunder rispetto ai precedenti ma il risultato finale mantiene immutata l’eleganza interpretativa che ha caratterizzato tutto il concerto non venendo meno al carattere goethiano che in molti hanno visto e vedono nella composizione. [...]

Pianos aux Jacobins : talentueux Ingolf Wunder et Kit Armstrong - ResMusica

TOULOUSE Sept. 2013 - [...] Mais le meilleur arrive avec la Sonate en si mineur de Liszt. Il est vrai que malgré son dynamisme musical remarquable, les notes aux passages rapides en forte sont quelque peu submergées dans le volume, mais ce n’est pas si gênant, car le contraste avec d’autres pages calmes et posées est tel que cela crée un caractère dramatique tout à fait convaincant. [...]