Reed Tetzloff Archive
The Music Treasury for 27 May 2018 — Reed Tetzloff, pianist
This week, pianist Reed Tetzloff is featured on The Music Treasury, hosted by Dr Gary Lemco. A recent graduate of the Mannes School, Tetzlaff is already a name on the international stages, having performed in Europe, the United States, and China. The show is broadcast live on Sunday 27 May 2018, from 19:00 to 21:00 PDT from Stanford University, KZSU, and can be heard concurrently through its Internet stream on kzsu.stanford.edu. Mr Tetzloff will be joining Dr Lemco as an on-air guest for the evening’s show. More details of the the show, the artist, and the evening’s playlist follow. Reed Tetzloff, pianist Our on-air guest this evening is American pianist Reed Tetzloff (b. 1992). Mr. Tetzloff has expressed his admiration for several pianists of the past, such as Alfred Cortot and Vladimir Sofronitsky, whose examples we may sample in the course of our discussion, along with performances by Mt. Tetzloff himself. Mr. Tetzloff earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Mannes College the New School for Music, where he studied in with Dr. Paul Wirth. Tetzloff has also had studies with Leif Ove Andnes, Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, and Andre Watts. He came to international attention at the […]
Reed Tetzloff: Sounds of Transcendence = Piano Works by GRIFFES; SCRIABIN; FRANCK – Reed Tetzloff, piano – Romeo Records
Pianist Reed Tetzloff approaches three late Romantic composers by way of their transcendent visions. Reed Tetzloff: Sounds of Transcendence = GRIFFES: Piano Sonata; The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan; SCRIABIN: Valse in A-flat Major, Op. 38; Fragilite, Op. 51, No. 1; Enigme, Op. 52, No. 2; Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 “White Mass”; Vers la Flamme, Op. 72; FRANCK: Prelude, Chorale et Fugue – Reed Tetzloff, piano – Romeo Records 7323, 70:40 (11/1/17) [Distr. by Albany] ****: Reed Tetzloff (b. 1992), a graduate of Mannes College and recipient of the CME International Performing Arts Grant, presents a recital in the spirit of C.S. Lewis, whom he cites in the liner notes: “I was made for another world… Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy [my desire] but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.” Consequently, Tetzloff chooses music (rec. 15-24 March 2017) that appeals to his Platonic or Emersonian concept of the Over-Soul in the form of three hyper-Romantic composers. The 1919 Piano Sonata of Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1872-1920) opens the recital, a work of rather audacious vision on the part of the composer, who took his “German” training to and beyond the accepted musical envelope, […]