PRESS

“Playing with total control, Beatrice Long let this mighty composition become powerful”    Onetz, Sulzbach-Rosenberger Amberger Zeitung, Germany

“Beatrice Long caused a sensation”    Le Provençal, France

“ With inspired mastery, emotive range and profound lyricism, she captured the poetic essence of the music and extracted their most intimate and hidden meaning”    La Nación, Costa Rica

“Long plays with a maximum of insight and technical ability and can bring the mighty Steinway to its knees”   The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina

“With barnstorming technique, the Taiwan natives allowed every piece they played to speak for itself”  The Washington Post 

“Long is persuasive in delicately inflected pieces…..conveyed with sensibility.”   BBC Magazine, London, England 

“Beatrice Long is a strong, no-nonsense musician whose command of these works is impressive on every levels. She fathoms easily their harmonic substance, and has a fine ear for detail and phrasing”   The American Record Guide

“Long brought a rare combination of charmingly graceful, yet almost sober dedication in her stage presence and effortless but fiery brilliance in her keyboard approach”  The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina

“Beatrice Long gave a heroine’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1, exhibiting dazzling technique and an innovative lyrical approach to the music.”   Prince George’s Journal, Washington, D.C.

“Consummate craft….delicate and refined technique… finesse…elegance”   Le Dauphine Libre, France

“Long’s Scarlatti is absolutely gorgeous and shimmering. Her voicing is top-notch. If this is the only CD you buy from the set, so be it!”  e-pinion, Listeners’ review

“Long is a musician with a lot of imagination and fantasy, a beautiful sound, interesting ornamentation, and a firm grasp of Scarlatti’s peculiarly Italian/Iberian sound world”  Amazon.com Listener’s review