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David Fray has declared his particular affinity with Austro-German music, and after two CDs featuring Bach and a DVD of Bach concertos he now programs Schubert. His approach to the music is typically questioning and illuminating. “At the piano,” he told the French magazine Pianiste, “I try to make music like a conductor, not just as a pianist. I approach the score as if it is a reduction of a symphonic work. The piano constitutes a way of getting nearer the heart of the music.”
His recording of Bach concertos, released last November, has now sold over 40,000 copies in France and Germany, singling him out as a pianist to watch. The French magazine Le Monde de la musique said: “The interpretation is always generous, enthusiastic and rich in contrasts. The fast movements appeal with their healthy energy, exuberant humour in their finales and lyricism throughout. No moments of tension stiffen the pianist’s phrases and he gives free rein to the sound,” while the German news magazine Spiegel described Fray as “perhaps the most inspired, certainly the most original Bach player of his generation . . . He discovers more psychological depth, more well-rounded stories and more refined emotions than his colleagues . . . His approach is lyrical, flexible, elegant and instilled with a cultivated bel canto aesthetic.”
