Megumi Sano

QUOTES FROM PRESS

"… a fiery performance with great rhythmic strength…"

Hindemith's "Suite 1992": Westphalian Rundschau, 22 March 1991

"… plays with a truly delicate touch and great contrapuntal skill. She could become one of the great interpreters of Mozart."

Mozart's Sonata KV533: Nassau New Press, 28 November 1990

"…Megumi Sano, who opened the concert with Rachmaninoff's "Cinq Morceaux de Fantasie, Op. 3", plays this late-romantic Russian music with great skill. She interprets the elegiac and melancholic melodies with feeling, while the rhythmic passages were energetic and technically perfect…"

Cologne Stadt Anzeiger, 4 November 1992

"Although I have heard this piece several times, played in many remarkable ways, I can't remember having heard it played so magically and joyfully."

"Moments Musicaux", Schubert: Musica Nova (Japan), March 1996

"…spirited and vivacious, with a particularly light and sparkling touch in the third movement…"

Beethoven, Sonata Op. 27, 1: Nassau New Press, 1 November 1995

"…(Megumi Sano) delighted the audience with her perfect technique, imaginative musical talent and brilliant runs - lively in the first passages, dreamy and profound during the Andante…"

Mozart, Piano Concert in G KV453: Cologne Stadt Anzeiger, 21 November 1995

"She played with great brilliance and a complete understanding of the Romantic period. [Nearly 50 minutes of music without a breather.] From the dreamy and intimate "By the fire" to the virulent "Hunter's Song", where you could even hear the hunting horns, this music offered the audience everything."

Tchaikovsky, The Seasons, Op.37a: Cologne Rundschau, 20 March 1997

"…the fascination of this pianist's playing lies not only in her brilliant technique but also in her unobtrusive musical talent. She masters Chopin's magical melodies with an outstanding feeling for the music…"

Chopin, Bolero, Op. 19 Four Mazurkas, Op. 24 and Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5: Cologne Rundschau, 20 March 1997

"… maestro, even of  bagatelles. Megumi Sano's mature technique is only surpassed by her sensitive and expressive interpretation. She has turned six bagatelles into six masterpieces."

Beethoven, Six Bagatelles, Op. 126: Cologne Stadt Anzeiger, 13/14 March 1999

"Truly intimate intermezzi…Megumi Sano is a great pianist. The melodious "Pagodes" or "Soirée dans Grenade" from the Estampes, the tonal bouquets and musical transitions in the forest scenes all had an air of enchantment. With her contemplative Intermezzi, she rendered Brahm's Fantasias with sensitivity and perception. Yet the dramatic Capriccios were not too short…"

Debussy, "Estampes", Schumann, "Forest Scenes Op. 82" and Brahms, Fantasias: Cologne Rundschau, 15 March 1999

"The Pianist's composure during all stages of the concert was striking, and proof of her ability to keep the kind of inner distance to the work during performance that is the mark of the true artist. Intense, but never taut or effusive, she watched with interest as the work progressed beneath her fingers….. "

Westfalenpost, 26 May 2000