David Tong

27/05/2005
Phillip Carrick
ABC Classic FM (Australia)

… The more I listen to David Tong, the more astounding I think he is. Forget CD of the Week, if we had a CD of the Year, he'd be it. Everyone here is talking about him. One person said that the beginning of the Rach sonata sounds like he dropped an anvil on the keyboard. As your reviewer said, his left hand is wonderfully alive and articulate (and powerful!!). And he plays that G major prelude, one of my favourite things, better than anyone I've heard, excepting Horowitz ...