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Fray's debut is marked by an imaginative collation, Bach and Boulez, played with vibrant imagination. He pushes the boundaries but resists the merely quirky. Impeccable technique allows him... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008More…
Release Date:
7th May 2007
Catalogue No: 3857872
Label: Erato
Length: 67 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Newcomer of the Year
Fray uses plenty of pedal, but one is struck by his bright, clean sound, and by the way he lets each piece unfold; the ornamentation is leisurely and pellucid, every note in every arpeggiation... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
The pianism is exemplary. David Fray has probably never hit an ugly note, nor failed to produce textures of luminous clarity and seductive depth and colour...Beautiful, certainly, in its way;... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
Fray's touch is exactly nuanced, its technical control aristocratically poised, produces sonorities of irresistably pellucid light and shade. And his rhythmic vitality is acute. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
What's immediately striking about his Schubert playing is its refinement, and variety of colour. In the melancholy unaccompanied theme that brings the first of the Impromptus, for instance,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009More…
Fray's command of colour and imaginative highlighting is intoxicating, and there is a freshness which makes for indisputably rewarding listening. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
On the basis of these recordings, Fray has an instinctive Mozartean affinity – he communicates fresh ideas with subtle, stylistic deftness...Throughout, Fray and Zweden work together with remarkable... — Graham Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 30th November 2010More…
Fray is the star of this album. Duo partner Renaud Capuçon’s sound is velvety, sometimes tender. But, on the whole, it is overly charged with electricity… Fray’s commitment to articulating Bach’s... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019More…
