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Daniel has recently released his new recording of the three Beethoven Op. 10 Piano Sonatas on Resonus Classics. Gramophone Magazine were very enthusiastic about the release, commenting that “best of all is his spacious, operatically informed Largo, one of the strongest period-instrument interpretations of this great movement I’ve heard.” (Nov 2022)
The second Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Festival and Competition recently took place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, directed by Daniel. First prize was awarded jointly to Duo Domo and the Astatine Trio. A fantastic programme included works by Coleridge-Taylor, Ireland, Dohnanyi, Rihm and Adès, with many RBC students performing alongside artists from the Linos, Gould and Leonore Trios. (Nov 2022)
Daniel is delighted to be starting a new chapter with his London Bridge Trio, joining forces with Ben Hancox and Cara Berridge from the Sacconi Quartet. See www.londonbridgetrio.co.uk (July 2022)
Daniel has recently recorded Brahms Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 117 and Scherzo Op. 4 on a Blüthner piano chosen from the Leipzig showroom by Brahms himself in the 1890s. This material is due for download release in 2023, to complement a forthcoming recording of Brahms Sonatas Op. 2 and Op. 5 for Resonus Classics.
2021
After fifteen months, Daniel gave his first post-lockdown concerts in June. The very first was at the Wigmore Hall with the wonderful Elias Quartet, playing Dvorak's Piano Quintet and was a delightful way to re-emerge, after the cancellation of the Wye Valley 20th birthday concert at the same hall in March 2020 - the very first of the pandemic cancellations.
Daniel was awarded his PhD in July 2021, for a Thesis entitled Reinterpreting Beethoven: Contemporary Compositional and Performance Responses to the Violin Sonatas (1798-1812).
There has been much praise for Daniel's most recent recording: the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven on Resonus Classics. International Piano Magazine wrote: "Michael and Tong take on this key repertory in a spirit of fresh, fearless égalité, stylistic certainty and all-round technical brilliance."