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Force of nature...I was spellbound...prodigious talent. Engaging manner and commitment to the work that truly make the audience feel we are participants not just voyeurs.
Force of nature...I was spellbound...prodigious talent. Engaging manner and commitment to the work that truly make the audience feel we are participants not just voyeurs.
From the opening notes, it was apparent the artist was in her element as she had RSO musicians and the audience enthralled… the room was filled with enthusiastic applause and bravos as the audience quickly rose in a standing ovation.
From the opening notes, it was apparent the artist was in her element as she had RSO musicians and the audience enthralled… the room was filled with enthusiastic applause and bravos as the audience quickly rose in a standing ovation.
Hsieh has her commanding way with Busoni and Liszt transcriptions of Bach’s Preludes… while she changes course easily and uses a ‘less-is-more’ philosophy to discover the full range of physical beauty in Siloti’s framing of [Bach’s Adagio]... She particularly excels in Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte…[Her Beethoven Sonata is] miraculous… great amplitude… warmth of phrasing… Sound is full range and natural…
Hsieh has her commanding way with Busoni and Liszt transcriptions of Bach’s Preludes… while she changes course easily and uses a ‘less-is-more’ philosophy to discover the full range of physical beauty in Siloti’s framing of [Bach’s Adagio]... She particularly excels in Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte…[Her Beethoven Sonata is] miraculous… great amplitude… warmth of phrasing… Sound is full range and natural…
Hsieh's interpretation found the sweet spot for capturing all of the suspense... the result was nothing short of electrifying, demonstrating just how powerful Schubert could be when working with poetic expressiveness that exceeded the brevity of the poems... making the entire recital a well-integrated, exciting and memorable package.
Hsieh's interpretation found the sweet spot for capturing all of the suspense... the result was nothing short of electrifying, demonstrating just how powerful Schubert could be when working with poetic expressiveness that exceeded the brevity of the poems... making the entire recital a well-integrated, exciting and memorable package.
Vol 1 proves every bit as ingratiating as Vol 2... Hsieh once again proves herself a dominating and forcefully interpretative presence. Her technique is strong, her tone warm and clear, and she identifies with these pieces in a way that would have made Earl Wild, that master of transcriptions, proud. Sound is excellent.
Vol 1 proves every bit as ingratiating as Vol 2... Hsieh once again proves herself a dominating and forcefully interpretative presence. Her technique is strong, her tone warm and clear, and she identifies with these pieces in a way that would have made Earl Wild, that master of transcriptions, proud. Sound is excellent.
Pianist Tien Hsieh gives a first rate Beethoven C minor Piano Sonata, op.111 combined with Bach and Beethoven transcriptions that are full of wonder and fantasy… I would like to hear more from this fine pianist. She receives an excellent recording made at Blue Wave Productions, Vancouver, Canada and there are informative booklet notes.
Pianist Tien Hsieh gives a first rate Beethoven C minor Piano Sonata, op.111 combined with Bach and Beethoven transcriptions that are full of wonder and fantasy… I would like to hear more from this fine pianist. She receives an excellent recording made at Blue Wave Productions, Vancouver, Canada and there are informative booklet notes.
...this is some pianism of the highest caliber. [Tien Hsieh] displays a delicate yet firmly in control touch with great dexterity and a lot of tonal finesse. [Featured is a] wondrous and simply radiant performance of Beethoven’s last sonata… It is energetic, propulsive, and well-knitted, easily one of the best I have heard on record, and that is quite a crowd! The sound is very good.
...this is some pianism of the highest caliber. [Tien Hsieh] displays a delicate yet firmly in control touch with great dexterity and a lot of tonal finesse. [Featured is a] wondrous and simply radiant performance of Beethoven’s last sonata… It is energetic, propulsive, and well-knitted, easily one of the best I have heard on record, and that is quite a crowd! The sound is very good.
Tien Hsieh’s performance style, combining directness with winning warmth, helps put the music she plays on ‘Mostly Trancriptions 2’ across to the listener with irresistible charm… Hsieh’s exhilarating performance exudes a spirit of confidence and a joyous exploration of Bach’s contrapuntal writing… The program concludes with an indescribably beautiful account of Beethoven’s Sonata No.32, in which Hsieh has uproarious fun with the stomping syncopations that erupt suddenly in the last movement…
Tien Hsieh’s performance style, combining directness with winning warmth, helps put the music she plays on ‘Mostly Trancriptions 2’ across to the listener with irresistible charm… Hsieh’s exhilarating performance exudes a spirit of confidence and a joyous exploration of Bach’s contrapuntal writing… The program concludes with an indescribably beautiful account of Beethoven’s Sonata No.32, in which Hsieh has uproarious fun with the stomping syncopations that erupt suddenly in the last movement…
Tien Hsieh brings considered technique and intense expressiveness to her Liszt... in the mist of all this excess, she always knew how those core themes were embedded in the embellishments. She could thus state the presence of that core with impeccable clarity, regardless of the density of prolonging content... thus capturing the tension.
Tien Hsieh brings considered technique and intense expressiveness to her Liszt... in the mist of all this excess, she always knew how those core themes were embedded in the embellishments. She could thus state the presence of that core with impeccable clarity, regardless of the density of prolonging content... thus capturing the tension.
It would be more accurate to say that I cannot get enough of imaginatively intelligent approaches to [Beethoven Op. 111]... Hsieh prepared a program through which one could appreciate its reverberations into the later years of the nineteenth century.
It would be more accurate to say that I cannot get enough of imaginatively intelligent approaches to [Beethoven Op. 111]... Hsieh prepared a program through which one could appreciate its reverberations into the later years of the nineteenth century.
CD Review: Mostly Transcriptions
Hsieh plays with grace and energy.
Hsieh plays with grace and energy.
Hsieh clearly appreciates this side of Liszt's talent, and it emerges clearly in each of her performances.
Hsieh clearly appreciates this side of Liszt's talent, and it emerges clearly in each of her performances.
As evocative as her reading of the fugue was virtuosic.
As evocative as her reading of the fugue was virtuosic.
... emphasis on sonority in the foreground of her interpretation. The result is an evocation of music for the organ that tends to be more imaginative than the full-orchestra treatments one encounters from the likes of Leopold Stokowski (which is saying something, since Stokowski was also an organist). Hsieh's interpretation of the entire program of the capriccio was as evocative as her reading of the fugue was virtuosic.
... emphasis on sonority in the foreground of her interpretation. The result is an evocation of music for the organ that tends to be more imaginative than the full-orchestra treatments one encounters from the likes of Leopold Stokowski (which is saying something, since Stokowski was also an organist). Hsieh's interpretation of the entire program of the capriccio was as evocative as her reading of the fugue was virtuosic.
CD Review: Mostly Transcriptions
Hsieh plays with grace and energy.
Hsieh plays with grace and energy.
Clearly rendered and intimately performed.
Clearly rendered and intimately performed.
...Miraculously and convincingly recreated.
...Miraculously and convincingly recreated.
In commenting upon this recorded anthology, I can reiterate that Tien Hsieh is a formidable virtuoso and also a magnetic musical persona… Miraculously and convincingly recreated. In terms of color, texture and concentration on detail, she immediately makes you sit up and take notice!
In commenting upon this recorded anthology, I can reiterate that Tien Hsieh is a formidable virtuoso and also a magnetic musical persona… Miraculously and convincingly recreated. In terms of color, texture and concentration on detail, she immediately makes you sit up and take notice!
Hsieh gave a disciplined performance through which that breakdown loomed without her having to succumb to it.
Hsieh gave a disciplined performance through which that breakdown loomed without her having to succumb to it.
Hsieh's performance... threw itself entirely into Florestan's voluble spirit.
Hsieh's performance... threw itself entirely into Florestan's voluble spirit.
Doing justice to both Liszt and Brahms
Tien Hsieh is such a pianist.
Tien Hsieh is such a pianist.
Taiwanese born Tien Hsieh gave a brilliant performance of this pianistically demanding work, her crashing chords, bravura runs and swirling scales were truly breathtaking.
Taiwanese born Tien Hsieh gave a brilliant performance of this pianistically demanding work, her crashing chords, bravura runs and swirling scales were truly breathtaking.
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
managed a rich, singing tone!
managed a rich, singing tone!
Romanticism Magnified with Pianist Tien Hsieh
Ms. Hsieh played the Fantasy and Fugue with great vigor and passion.
Ms. Hsieh played the Fantasy and Fugue with great vigor and passion.
...an orchestral-like sonority at the piano.
...an orchestral-like sonority at the piano.
... suitably dazzling in the best Rachmaninoff tradition.
... suitably dazzling in the best Rachmaninoff tradition.
Keeping her wits and her virtuoso flights on the same page, pianist Tien Hsieh dazzles Pacifica
Hsieh gave her audience layers of Liszt immortal.
Hsieh gave her audience layers of Liszt immortal.
Tien took the audience by surprise when she played (Bee- thoven) Choral Fantasy for Piano and Chorus. It looked as though her entire being was exploding with vigor as sounds seemingly poured from her fingertips.
Tien took the audience by surprise when she played (Bee- thoven) Choral Fantasy for Piano and Chorus. It looked as though her entire being was exploding with vigor as sounds seemingly poured from her fingertips.
Like the music, she appeared calm and subdued at times and then feverishly focused (Beethoven's Emperor Concerto)... Hsieh received an ovation from the audience, who requested several bows of her before she could leave the stage.
Like the music, she appeared calm and subdued at times and then feverishly focused (Beethoven's Emperor Concerto)... Hsieh received an ovation from the audience, who requested several bows of her before she could leave the stage.
Grand, relentless, madness explained... Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that surely none but a poet could explain.
Grand, relentless, madness explained... Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that surely none but a poet could explain.
Tien Hsieh delivered electrifying performances of music of monumentally heroic difficulty. Works by Messiaen, Beethoven and finally Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole were breathtaking in their technical quality and interpretive maturity.
Tien Hsieh delivered electrifying performances of music of monumentally heroic difficulty. Works by Messiaen, Beethoven and finally Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole were breathtaking in their technical quality and interpretive maturity.
Pianist Tien Hsieh performs in Georgetown
...you could hear a pin drop as attendees hung on every note.
...you could hear a pin drop as attendees hung on every note.
Widmung... floated from her heart as much as from the piano.
Widmung... floated from her heart as much as from the piano.
...traveled her formidable, thoroughly exciting program, with her wits and her virtuoso flights into the sublime.
...traveled her formidable, thoroughly exciting program, with her wits and her virtuoso flights into the sublime.
Hsieh received an ovation from the audience, who requested several bows of her before she could leave the stage.
Hsieh received an ovation from the audience, who requested several bows of her before she could leave the stage.
Tien Hsieh took the audience by surprise when she played (Beethoven) Choral Fantasy for Piano and Chorus. It looked as though her entire being was exploding with vigor as sounds seemingly poured from her fingertips."
Tien Hsieh took the audience by surprise when she played (Beethoven) Choral Fantasy for Piano and Chorus. It looked as though her entire being was exploding with vigor as sounds seemingly poured from her fingertips."
Youthful classical pianist Tien Hsieh dazzled an enraptured audience…resulting in a round of standing applause.
Youthful classical pianist Tien Hsieh dazzled an enraptured audience…resulting in a round of standing applause.
Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that surely none but a poet could explain.
Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that surely none but a poet could explain.
