"Poetic,
lyrical, romantic" Weiler Zeitung
"Heroic"
Geoff Brown, The Times
"A
superlative communicator", Eastbourne
Gazette
"This
brilliant young musician... is a superlative communicator
on his instrument. Throughout the recital his rapt involvement
and superb technique entranced the audience."
Eastbourne Gazette, June 2000
"Marcus
Andrews is a pianist who appeared at the Arts Centre in
February and played a programme of music to appeal to
all tastes. He is a musician of talent and expertise...
gave a rich and mature performance."
Eastbourne
Gazette, February 1999
The anguished notes of Boustany’s flute hovered over the heavy beat of the raw funeral march struck on the bare bass piano strings by Andrews’ white-gloved hand as he bent beneath the lid of the open grand piano. The audience was stunned into absolute silence. I was frozen in my seat at the front of the hall.
Michael Jansen, Jordan Times, February 2007
"The
first (solo), played by Marcus Andrews, was the Prelude
in C minor, Op. 23 no. 7 by Rachmaninov. This was a good,
fluid performance with the performer well in control of
every note he played; his control even extended to the
audience at the end when we were all held by his last
chord until he chose to relax and indicate that his performance
was over."
- Catherine
Whitnell, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, UK, June 1994
"Thursday
night's concert was a cracker - a most enjoyable programme
- and I thought you gave excellent performances!
Thank you so much for including the pieces
- you played them with such sensitivity, a delight
to hear."
Cecilia
McDowall - composer
"The carefully chosen pieces of music, played by Marcus Andrews, helped evoke a period of innocence, a time and place 'for to forget/ The lies, and truths and pain' of everyday life."
The Royal Gazette, Bermuda ('If I should die", memoire of Rupert Brooke, English Chamber Theatre Production, Bermuda Festival, 2002)
"Talented
and most memorable"
- Arthur Boyd reviews Coda recital
"Coda's 131st
recital on Saturday at Kent College, Pembury, proved to
be a most memorable evening of talented music-making by
two prize-winners at the 2000 Tunbridge Wells International
Young Concert Artists Competition. These were Susan FitzGerald,
a flautist who was a finalist in the Wind Section and
pianist Marcus Andrews, the Accompanist Prize winner.
Both combined to present a varied programme which avoided
some of the programming pitfalls sometimes encountered.
Their programme commenced with a four-movement sonata
by Telemann, a prodigeous composer of unbounded talent.
Silver tone from the flute and gentle support from the
piano made this an appropriate programme opener. Marcus
Andrews then treated us to an elegant performance of Beethoven's
Opus 27/1 piano sonata (quasi una fantasia) a work in
some contrast to its companion piece in the same opus
number, the so called Moonlight sonata. Then we heard
a work composed in 1960, the flute and piano sonata by
Robert Muczynski, an American born in 1929.
Its beautiful slow Andante movement was surrounded by
three others of fast and sometimes frantic speed, demonstrating
not only the physical dexterity of the artists but also
their technical adroitness in successfully surmounting
the difficulties presented to them.
After a short rest, Susan and Marcus found no problems
with Theodore Boehm's agile Grande Polonaise and were
able to beguile in three movements from a Suite Antique
by John Rutter. Here the absolute charm of this work caught
the audience's fancy and a finale in the tortuous form
of a flute and piano twisting of themes from Bizet's Carmen
by Fernande Borne proved no difficulty to both these artists
(even in an arrangement by James Galway), displaying technique
and musicality worthy of musicians many years their senior.
This recital was attended and enjoyed by the Mayor of
Tunbridge Wells, Cllr Melvyn Howell."
Tunbridge Wells Courier,
15th March 2002
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