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| BORIS KRAJN� - piano |
| � In Carnegie Hall, the
highly-regarded Czech pianist... was fully as adept with
Beethoven. His technique was virtually faultless
(especially in some superbly-articulated chromatic runs),
while his big-boned interpretation had a near-miraculous
balance of control and abandon. " NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Boris Krajn�, considered the leading Czech pianist of his generation, has performed throughout the world at all the major musical capitals including Vienna, Salzburg, London, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, New York, Washington, Toronto, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. He has toured frequently as soloist and recorded with the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, and Brno State Philharmonic, as well as being a noted chamber musician performing with the Panocha, Prague, and Kocian Quartets among others. Krajn� made his U.S. debut in 1972, was heard at such major venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and appeared with many important orchestras including Toronto, Milwaukee, Warsaw, and Edmonton.
Krajn� has been featured at the Mainly Mozart Festival in Toronto, the Athens Festival, the Bergen Festival, and the Prague Spring Festival. He was awarded a Special Prize at the 1975 Queen Elizabeth Competition and won the "Citta di Senigallia" Competition in 1977. Boris Krajn�'s extensive discography includes the best-selling Dvorak Piano Quintet, concertos of Ravel, Bart�k and Prokofiev, and the complete solo piano works of Ravel. His recording of concerti by Poulenc, Roussel and Honegger was awarded the 1982 Grand Prix du Disque Paris.
RECORDINGS: Supraphon, Panton, Bonton, Pavane Labels
Photos: Paul J. Hoeffler
� Krajn� played with winning warmth and delicacy.
. . a lyricism that Krajn� rendered in a miraculous sound more
akin to glass chimes than to the grand piano. "
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
� The performance of Ravel's G Major Concerto was the
finest I've heard anywhere. "
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
� One of those happy convergences of energy, creativity
and first-rate fiming that can result in memorable moments in a
listener's life, Mozart was the main beneficiary. This almost
eerily mercurial work - alternately limpid and pensive, dramatic
and delicately nuanced - was interpreted by the coolly expert
Krajn� with near-micrometer precision. . . If was a superior
job. "
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
� A formidable technician with an outgoing musical
personality and style reminiscent of Glenn Gould's. "
TORONTO STAR
� Delivered. . .with clarify, directness and simplicity.
His exquisitely shaped phrases, tender reading of the second
movement and exuberant third-movement tempo displayed selfless
musical reserve that cast the piece, not the soloist, in the
spotlight. "
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL
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