“ “Pianist John Wilson, like his mentor Michael Tilson Thomas, is a servant of the music rather than its dictator and he knows both when and how to step back and let it speak.”
”A performance of raw power and touching beauty.”
”Upon Further Reflection is an ingratiating piece. Its freshness derives partly from its eclecticism —echoes of jazz, bossa nova, and Broadway collide with more abstracted, nostalgic expressivity — and partly from its wild virtuosity. “
”Indeed, no small part of the thrill of Wilson’s performance is hearing the terrific dexterity with which the pianist dispatches its busiest textures” ”