Lucas & Arthur Jussen

Young Dutch Pianists, The Jussen Brothers, Surprise With Sensitive Performance

maandag 10 mei 2010

FrontRow – A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts
By WAYNE LEE GAY – May 7th, 2010

… I was gasping in amazement the minute they started to play …

The sensitivity to the shape of each phrase, the utterly clean passagework, the gloriously clean extended trills, and, most impressive of all, the obvious instinct for the subtle passions of Mozart, combined to make Pires’ assignment of remarkable talent to these young men seem not so outlandish.

Young Dutch Pianists, The Jussen Brothers, Surprise With Sensitive Performance

The brilliant, joyous humanity of the final movement was almost heartbreakingly beautiful. And, as one might expect, the Jussens have that almost magical aura of mutual ESP that one occasionally sees and hears in the very best chamber ensembles. They proved this further in the glittering, teasing rubato of their encore, late romantic Russican composer Anton Arensky’s La Coquette.

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