Generalanzeiger Bonn
August 3, 2000
“The fifth and last concert of ‘Piano Summer 2000’ in the Chamber Music Hall of the Beethoven-Haus was performed by …Ulrich Roman Murtfeld, dedicated to modern French music with selected pieces by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc and Henri Dutilleux. An exquisite connoisseur specifically of impressionism, he is master of an adequately differentiated illustrative ability to create sounds and to articulate (with, of course, the appropriate playing technique)…A true show of strength (and of memory) then came forth at the end with the musically sonorous and technically most demanding, very densely woven and partly very modern Sonata of 1947 by Henri Dutilleux – the movements ‘Lied’ and ‘Choral et variations were particularly impressive …Much enthusiastic applause last but not least after this impressive performance, and two encores…”