Alexandra Dariescu Concert pianist ’’Outstanding communicator, hugely popular with audiences...’’
 
“A Wigmore appearance was 25-year-old Alexandra Dariescu’s reward for winning the Guildhall Recital Prize, and she bravely went off-piste with Bartok’s Suite op 14 and a complex Dutilleux rarity. Schumann’s Abegg Variations and the Liszt/Wagner Liebestod allowed her to demonstrate her tender and vivid approach to the keyboard.” Michael Church, International Piano Magazine, Wigmore Hall 2011
Alexandra Dariescu “blew their minds”...”sheer quality” Financial Times 2011
“The Bach Partita demonstrated her amazing technical ability, with every note exactly placed.. She promised us, and gave us, wit in Beethoven's 31/ 3 sonata, stressing those sudden outbursts that are part of Beethoven's character, and even making the audience laugh out loud in the scherzo at the recurring theme. That's a rare skill…her composure in those rippling waves of sound in Ravel’s Ondine was stunning.“ Chris Ramsden, Stoke on Trent International Festival 2010
“Impeccable technique and refined musicianship throughout characterised the playing of the young pianist, Alexandra Dariescu, who captivated the audience in the Heywood Civic Centre for the first of this season’s a concerts organised by the Rochdale Music Society.” February 2011, RochdaleOnline.co.uk
“This was a wonderful evening of music making to open the LSO's autumn season at the Barbican. The Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu, multi-prizewinner (notably of the the prestigious Prix Maurice Ravel in France) introduced us to the composers of the day with a formidable recital of major works by each of them, played straight off and completely by memory. All the music was thoroughly assimilated, even including the last of the three Preludes by Henri Dutilleux. She was particularly good in conveying the depths of timbre and overtones within the instrument.” Barbican Hall, Musical pointers 2009http://www.alexandradariescu.com/www.alexandradariescu.com/Biography.htmlhttp://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dutilleux-Henri.htmhttp://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dutilleux-Henri.htmshapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2
“Soloist Alexandra Dariescu gave a stylish, purposeful and robust performance of Beethoven’s third concerto with clean attack and clarity of articulation. The finale seemed particularly ominous, emerging as it did from the deeply quiet slow movement where time seemed to stand still.” Sinfonia ViVA, conductor Andre de Ridder, Royal Concert Hall www.thisisnottingham.co.uk http://www.thisisnottingham.co.ukshapeimage_8_link_0
“Alexandra Dariescu is an example to follow. Once again, she is living proof of the great capacity the young Romanian generation has to adapt and achieve top performance in areas of excellence, where worldwide competition is increasingly strong and international talents are constantly challenging these top positions”. HE Ambassador of Romania, Dr Ion Jinga
“The Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu gave Mozart’s late Duport Variations with an admirable sense of style, and Chopin’s B minor Sonata.  This was very powerfully projected with an admirable delineation of character allied to strong poetic feeling.” Musical Opinion, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
“Her playing combines effortless technical control with an individual approach to sound, particularly exemplified in her playing of Chopin” Manchester Recital Series 2008
Alexandra Dariescu is a highly sensitive, intelligent, mature artist. Her playing has imagination, flair, deep comprehension of the music she plays, and she has got the fingers to implement her ideas. NELSON GOERNER
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Emperor Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican Hall 29 December 2011 - Back to the live concert hall and on 28 November 1811, exactly 200 years, one month and one day ago, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 gave its premiere in Leipzig. The piece was enthusiastically received by the audience and the review in the Allgemeine Zeitung described the work as" undoubtedly one of the most original, imaginative, effective but also the most difficult of all existing concertos." So when all the turkey had been consumed Beethoven was the meal of choice. His Piano Concerto No.5 is easily one of my favourite Beethoven works, nicknamed the "Emperor Concerto" by one of Beethoven's close friends because of its powerful, majestic themes and heroic passages. This evening, however, it seemed as though the Emperor became more of an Empress this evening. Dariescu reigned high over the orchestra. Alexandra Dariescu, the bright young Romanian pianist who is making it big, and rightly so, appeared this evening in all the blue sparkles she could find, but was she to give the Emperor some bling? Well yes. There were some apparent errors, mainly that of the relationship between orchestra and conductor which wasn't cemented well by Maestro Warren-Green, who received nothing but slow responses from incredibly clear beating. She thrived in moments of calmer serenity, purely stroking the higher keys of piano. This gentle bliss triggered a stunned silence as she caressed beautiful passages namely in a theme in the adagio un poco mosso when Dariescu really flourished and the concerto seemed natural. Despite the orchestra's misdemeanors Dariescu remains as a pianist to watch. She certainly has a way with careful and considered phrasing that makes for blissful listening Paul Guest http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/paul-guest/tosca-royal-opera-review_b_1176039.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/paul-guest/tosca-royal-opera-review_b_1176039.htmlshapeimage_22_link_0