Reviews
Music and Musicians
The sheer intelligence of Renée Reznek’s pianism was a delightful discovery ... a superbly clear and crystalline account of Schoenberg’s Suite Opus 25, the part-writing perfectly weighted, each dance movement charged with irrepressible wit and energy.
The Daily Telegraph
Schoenberg is coming of age to judge by Renée Reznek’s performance of the Piano Suite Opus 25. Miss Reznek’s was a masterful reading pianistically and intellectually.
The Times
Not the least achievement of Renée Reznek was in making Debussy’s Second Book of Images sound just as new and strange as they must have seemed to ears in 1907 with her microscopic, almost clinical care for the weight and shade of detail.
Financial Times
Miss Reznek has become a skilled platform performer as well as remaining a rewarding interpreter ... quite special talents.
Chichester Observer
Miracles of clarity and delicacy... Miss Reznek’s control of dynamics and her precision of touch were extraordinary.
Cape Times
Miss Reznek, who possesses a formidable technique, gave an impressive performance. Her playing was crystal clear, always stylish and had a classical line. A sensitive player, she captured the sheer exhilaration of the Mozart A major concerto K414.
Daily Telegraph
A fascinating and distinguished recital ... an artist of scrupulous sensitivity and intelligence.
The Sunday Telegraph
Tuesday evening’s Purcell Room recital … reminded one that an all-20th century programme can, after all, touch and delight as diversely as the music of any other age when so nicely contrasted and pellucidly played … Certainly I have rarely heard a clearer, less contorted account of Schoenberg’s Five Pieces Opus 23.
Cambridge Evening News
A magnificently played recital. Incisive, authoritative playing.
Natal Mercury
A model of expressive clarity. Her playing was crisp, elegantly phrased and rich in dynamic contrast ... A refreshing, invigorating recital.
Natal Daily News
Authoritative manner and complete assurance of technique placed at the service of the music … a bold and brilliant advocate of 20th Century repertoire. Miss Reznek produced an iridescent range of colours from the instrument, giving complex polyphonic passages an almost orchestral lucidity. She played Bartók’s Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs Opus 20 with a glittering style and a sense of idiom and hot-blooded Magyar fire which would no doubt have delighted her teacher, Gyorgy Sandor.