Daniel-Ben Pienaar
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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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His avowed aim in playing Mozart is to avoid the elegance and gracefulness of traditional performance-practice, and to bring out instead the music's nervous energy. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2025, Recommended Recording (Piano Sonata No. 15)
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Special offer. An English Sett for Trumpet
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) & Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)
There’s no doubting the technical prowess of these two crack performers, and it’s hard not to share their guilty delight in this stolen booty: intonation and ensemble are spot-on, rhythms pulse,... —
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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive... —
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These are, in short, fresh, spontaneous, original readings that shed new light on the keyboard player's Bible. —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Daniel-Ben Pienaar's performance are quite simply stunning. The instrument he plays matters much less than his musicianship, which is evident at every turn. His touch is light and sure, his... —
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also Recommended
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David Gorton: Farnabye's Maske
Olwen Foulkes, Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano), Stefan Östersjö, Longbow
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He's a thoughtful pianist with a fine technique and beautiful tonal variety. One fabulous moment is his performance of the F-minor Prelude: he plays it with a pale, almost lifeless tone and... —
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as different as can be - yet without ever sounding contrived or perverse...Simply put, he makes the Goldbergs sound more like that other supreme set of piano variations, Beethoven's Diabelli... —
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Ben-Pienaar certainly holds his own in these gentle, smiling, quirky pieces...[In the Diabellis] Ben-Pienaar is excellent, though he is less well recorded than he should be —
