Musical Opinion - March-April 2007- Max Harrison
Daniel Propper's Goldberg at the Wigmore
"The performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which Daniel Propper gave at the Wigmore Hall on 8 january, was a reconciliation of emotion, intellect and refined pianism. Admirable throughout was the exact characterisation of each Variation as in 4 or 14. Likewise, Propper's keyboard skill was everywhere evident, as in the fleet kaleidoscope of 5, 11 or the almost rumbustious French Overture of 16, which marks the beginning of the work's second half. Yet it was the prominence of musical emotion that was my overriding impression, this being most apparent, almost paradoxically, in some of the most 'learned' pièces, such as 15, the Canon at the fifth, or 21, the Canon at the seventh. It was in Variation 25, however, the so-called Black pearl, the height of Bachian romanticism, that feeling was most intensely expressed (...)

(...) Propper gave the score absolutely complete, which is to say with all repeats duly made, while his musical insight and pianistic skill were vividly evident in the ways he varied these repeats. Thus, the connections deepened and broadened so that what earlier had appeared a sequence of character variations became a single body of music. Yet, finally, all complexity was banished and with the repeat of the Aria simplicity was regained."

The Gramophone - March 2007 - Jed Distler
Bach, Goldberg Variations, Skarbo DSK 1059
" The Gould shadow looms large though a young pianist shows great potential Perhaps it's unfair to discuss an emerging pianist's Goldberg Variations like Daniel Propper's in the face of Glenn Goulds long-established reference versions. Yet how can one not, considering how much Propper takes up the gauntlet? (...)

(...) Yet other movements come off with assured mastery, like the bouncy, propulsive canon at the fourth, and Var 11's well delineated, conversational polyphony. Chalk this release up to an excellently engineered work-in-progress from a pianist who clearly has the potential to deliver an artistically ripe, thoroughly competitive Goldbergs on disc. "

New Straits Times - Avril 1997 - Flavia de Souza
Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie
Sensitive Swedish pianist
"In the not often played four-movement Grieg sonata, Propper captured the different moods to portray the frolic and mischief, the musical and romantic, the tender and sweet, the poetic and dreamy. (...) Chopin's Twelwe Etudes op. 10 showcased Propper's technical and musical qualities to advantage. (...) Especially beautiful were the chromatic runs of the different etudes. For example, in the second etude, they were exquisitely and delicately executed, and in the third etude, its quiet and beautiful opening theme played with moving simplicity, intimatedly yet not overdone, and in the eleventh to end with a passionate twelfth."