MIKLOS PERENYI – PRESS QUOTES 

Miklos Perenyi with Andras Schiff (piano) - Beethoven Cello Sonata No 4 in C op 102

"Many players are tempted to invest the opening Andante with heavy portent and lavish vibrato. Not so the Hungarian duo cellist Miklos Perenyi and pianist Andras Schiff – two veteran Beethovenians.  The piece also needs real musical intimacy between the players.  Motifs are exchanged and echoed between the players and there are even unison trills – Perenyi and Schiff are clearly two of the same mind. Perenyi is a consummate cellist who never constrains his limpidly beautiful tone, but has the most eloquent of ‘speaking’ bows and a vast range of articulations at his disposal.” 

 BBC Music Magazine February 2009 (Recommended recording of this work).

Hallé, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - Strauss Don Quixote

“Miklos Perenyi played marvellously in the cello solo role, dominating when needed and supportive when not and his instrumental narrative connected the sections beautifully.”     

John Byrne, Musical Opinion – January/February 2008 

Kronberg Cello Festival

“At a second concert the same evening, he demonstrated Kornberg’s collegiality by leading the ovation for Miklos Perenyi.  It was the first time, I later learned, that Harrell heard the masterful Hungarian (mine, too) and a most impressive event it was.  Perenyi’s warm yet focused sound served ideally for Beethoven’s Sonata in C Op. 102, No 1, and made for an unusually lucid, patrician account of the Brahms first cello sonata, in E minor, Op 38.”  

 George Loomis, Musical America, September 2005   

Wigmore Hall, London

“Performer, teacher, composer: all three roles feature in the musical life of Miklos Perenyi, one of Hungary’s greatest artists who is so far under-recognised. This recital confirmed him as a figure of true artistic stature, not just for the originality of his programme (a fascinating juxtaposition of largely central European works) but for the innate intelligence, skill and insight with which he illuminated it.” 

“Perenyi’s was a wonderfully impassioned performance, imbued with energy, emotional depth, technical finesse and innate musicality.”

 Paul Cutts, The Strad, February 2003

The Hub, Edinburgh Festival

“From a personal point of view, the vision of the Suites, as delivered by the wonderful Hungarian cellist Miklos Perenyi is somewhere along the road towards the ideal view.  In his last concert, late on Sunday night, he played the second and sixth of the Suites, and, in every note of every bar of every movement, he was absolutely consistent in his interpretation.”

“ We know, from his previous Festival appearances, that Perenyi is a deeply soulful player – that is the essence of his magic.  But, while his Bach playing was imbued with that characteristic, it was tempered by playing that, whether in the most serious, slow Sarabande, or the most whirling Gigue, was completely unaffected, and wholly unpretentious.”  

 Michael Tumelty, The Herald, 28 August 2001

“…..amid the compelling playing of Miklos Perenyi.”

“Perenyi’s concert series will be a festival highlight.  His account of suites one and four were debonair, baroque and honest.”  

“Perenyi’s appeal is his simplicity as a performer.  Neither self-conscious nor arrogant, he takes to the stage with music on his mind.  After he had cast his spell with Bach’s Courantes Allemandes and Gigues, he left us wanting more.”   

Martin Parker, The Scotsman, 24 August 2001  

“Miklos Perenyi is one of the great living cellists.  His playing of the Bach suites has an inward quality that is very different from the flamboyance of Yo-yo Ma or Janos Starker, but, if anything more rewarding.”   

 Ivan Hewett, The Times, 18 August 2001

Schubert CD: Piano Trios in B flat, D898 & in E flat, D929; Arpeggione Sonata

“Perenyi sounds gorgeous, especially in the radiant Andante of the B flat Trio and throughout his impressive account of the Arpeggione Sonata.” 

Michael Jameson, BBC Music Magazine, January 1998  

“These discs begin with an outstanding performance of the Arpeggione Sonata.”

“There’s no hint in Perenyi’s playing that, with its high tessitura, this is a difficult work for the cello, and he produces a most beautiful, warm, serene tone for the Adagio.”  

Gramophone Magazine, December 1997 

“Miklos Perenyi and Andras Schiff play this magical work with a lovely, unforced musicality that is a delight to hear.”  

Sunday Times, 26 October 1997

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