reviews Conductor Organist Harpsichordist Composer       Time Magazine “High priest of the harpsichord” _______________________________________ Wynton Marsalis “The High Priest” of Bach _______________________________________ Music in Old Krakow Gazeta Krakowkoska, 1999 “I have never heard such a monumental and ravishing performance of Bach’s great Passacaglia.” _______________________________________ Re:  Scarlatti Sonatas on SONY Stereo Review, 1999 “Magnificent.  Simply an incomparably fine disc.  Newman plays the very devil out of these sonatas.  Run don’t walk to buy this.” _______________________________________ Washington Post, 1997 “He amazed us throughout with his economy of gesture and perfect understanding of classical style.  He has a genius for improvising in a manner both spontaneous and digitally immaculate.” _______________________________________ Edmonton Journal, Canada, 1999 “Newman’s performances were outstanding, well paced and intelligent.” _______________________________________ Seattle Times, 2002 “Newman, much-recorded, consistently inventive as a harpsichordist and capable of the most dazzling cadenzas (notably, of course, in the Fifth Brandenburg), kept the tempos brisk.” _______________________________________ Alte Musik Actuel, Bach Organ CD’s on SONY, 1998 “These Bach performances can only be described as incredible.  What makes this recording so interesting is that it is so passionately gripping.  These performances are always sparkling, inspiring, musical, and never boring.” _______________________________________ Washington Post, 1992 “Newman is an excellent pianist.  He reminds me of Glen Gould in his combination of intense intelligence and dazzling technique.” _______________________________________ Digital Audio, 1998 Newman’s performance of Bach’s organ works is a revelation.  Newman never conquers Bach, but interprets him in the most tasteful and magnificent way possible.” _______________________________________ New York Times, 1990 “Newman’s flair for the theatrical and propulsive is always exciting.  His ornamentation is completely fluid and unmannered.  His pedal playing in the Toccata in F was spectacular.” _______________________________________ American Record Guide, 1998 Toccatas, Vox Records “Newman has recaptured the excitement that made his first recordings so memorable.” _______________________________________ Dallas Morning News, re: Brandenburg Concerti, 1994 “These performances offer continuous new excitement to those who thought that they had exhausted the pleasures of Bach’s most famous works.  What makes the recording so novel is Newman’s approach to ornamentation and improvisation.” _______________________________________ Chicago Sun Times, 1996 “Newman approached Franck’s registrational scenario, blending organ sounds with acute skill.  He projects energy and insight.  Everything he does captures the imagination. _______________________________________ Washington Post, 1996 “Newman is one of the great keyboard players of our time.  He is the ‘only’ organist I can listen to!” _______________________________________ New York Times, 1989 “Newman approached Franck’s registrational contrasts with virtuosic fluidity, drawing on a wide timbrel palette.  Franck’s music benefited by robust performances of an almost cinematic variety and breadth.” _______________________________________ Washington Post, 1988 “It was a midnight Mass of the brightest colors, a celebration of music itself.  Newman played Bach on the Kennedy Hall Concert Organ until midnight.  Over 1000 people stood and cheered.” _______________________________________ American Record Guide, 1998 “Newman’s new recordings of the Goldberg has dazzling finger work, and bold ideas about ornamentation and rhythmic rhetoric.  There is an air of total conviction.  Newman’s new version is likely to remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future. _______________________________________ Bilbao Daily, Spain, 2000 “Newman was completely compelling and brilliant is his performances of the Brandenburgs with the Bilbao Orchestra.” _______________________________________ Hi Fidelity Magazine - Clifford Gilmore “With Anthony Newman, we have to invent a whole new category in which to place Bach performances, so fresh and original are his ideas, that the result is basically unlike any other performance.  Coupled with his youthful impetuosity is a brilliant and analytical mind that is able to project more of the essence of Bach’s music than any other performer I know.” _______________________________________ Dallas Morning News “These performances offer continual new insights to those who thought they had exhausted the pleasures of these most famous of all Bach’s works…so novel and exciting is Newman’s approach to ornamentation and improvisation “ _______________________________________ NY Times “Newman had his forces on edge, their nerves alive.  Textures were light, rhythms crisp, tempi fast.  But they were always energized and intensely focused” _______________________________________