From: Lesley Groff

From: Lesley Groff To: Charlie Albright Subject: Re: New Review! Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:40:15 +0000 Congratulations! All sounds spectacular... On Sep 18, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Charlie Albright < > wrote: Dear Mr. Epstein and Lesley, Hope you're both doing great! Just returned back from Boston last night after my afternoon concert, and there was a super review...it was sold out, too! :) Here is the link ( ), and also the highlighted PDF version is attached. ...And some excerpts are below! Off to Kansas City, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Lee University on Thursday for a couple weeks! Thank you all for everything that you do!!! :) -Charlie "That's what happens when you give it your all." "Charlie Albright brought an inspired approach, holding nothing back in a masterful display of musicality. His extraordinary technique always foregrounded both expressiveness and structure." "Striking rendering." "Characteristic of Albright's approach was an arch-like shaping of long phrases, entering softly gently, building toward a peak, before returning altered from the traversal." "Breath-taking intimacy, as though wooing an absent beloved." "The study in thirds, No. 6 in G-sharp Minor, painted a gorgeous impressionist canvas with shimmering pastels and flashes of light." "Crested a tidal wave of ineffable and unstoppable emotion." "A sublime and unbridled threat of cosmic forces." "The Etude in C Minor received a Byronic grandeur and subjectivity; its sublime cosmic scale engulfed worlds and difficulties into seamless and fractious beauty." "Albright gave us a taste of the next Gardner concert with a brief improvisation, a moody, flowing late- Romantic piece evocative of Rachmaninoff but expressive of a distinctly modem and utterly authentic content." <Review (Highlighted) - Albright and Chopin at the Gardner - The Boston Musical Intelligencer (2017-09- 18).pdf> EFTA00458727