Tanya Bannister @ Phillips

Clementi, Piano Sonatas, T. Bannister (Naxos, 2006)

Charles T. Downey, Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection
Washington Post, May 20, 2014

Pianist Tanya Bannister has formidable technique and a thoughtful approach to programming a recital. Trained in London, at Yale and in New York, her fingers rarely erred in a recital inspired by the influence of Handel on Beethoven, heard at the Phillips Collection on Sunday afternoon. What did not always come through was a love of sound, a willingness to explore a broad range of tones and colors, as her touch at the keyboard was too consistently sharp and biting.

This harshness was in evidence in Bannister’s overemphasis of the melodic line in Handel’s Suite in F, HWV 427, balanced by... [Continue reading]

Tanya Bannister, piano
Phillips Collection

SEE ALSO:

• András Schiff's lecture on op. 110
  
• Charles T. Downey, Cygnus Ensemble at LoC: Harold Meltzer (Ionarts, February 6, 2012)
  
• Jens F. Laurson, Fine pianism from Tanya Bannister (Ionarts, January 29, 2007)