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A "victorious" pianist
Núvol (Elsa Álvarez Forges)
12.08.2024
In the first movement, the Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato, the pianist unleashed fire and fury, always with great definition and clarity. Where he made a creation both impressive and magnetic was in the Arietta, in which he created a very strong and very deep latent tension while playing piano or pianissimo, like charged air that can be cut with a knife. The lyricism floated throughout the movement as Braojos strung the melody in an uninterrupted continuum, like an endless thread, shaping it like a river with gentle meanders. The piano passages had a degree of precious detail that reached delirious levels in the trills, ethereal and of an extraordinary sublimity.
With Víctor Braojos we are dealing with a musician from head to toe, pierced by music and with a magnificent ability to transmit it. Only the bravest of the brave would dare to perform Beethoven's last sonata live and emerge victorious. This was the case of the Catalan pianist.
08.08.2024
A magnificent Víctor Braojos opens the piano cycle at the Palau de la Música
Revista Musical Catalana (Lluis Trullen)
The intensity of the recital was crowned with Beethoven's monumental last piano sonata, op 111 in C minor, one of the most sublime poetic essays ever written for the piano. Beethoven conceived the two-movement sonata as a musical diptych expressing the contrasting states of human existence – earthly struggle and transcendence. Braojos' interpretation tackled with equal mastery and spirituality the fervent, fast-paced first movement in C minor, the adagio that envelops the ecstasy of the Arietta and its increasingly virtuosic variations before melting into the last pianissimo cord in C major. The Epilogue from the Romantic Scenes of Granados ended a performance that marked another milestone in the career of the exceptionally talented Victor Braojos.
I will play J. S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations" in 2025
Assaig General (Albert Torrens & Marta Lanau)
26.01.2023
We have been speaking with the pianist Víctor Braojos, resident in London, Junior Fellow of the Keyboard Department at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Visiting Music Professor at Newton Prep, prior to the concert he will give on the 27th January at “El Jardí dels Tarongers”, where he will perform works by Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. We have chatted with him about his next commitments in Catalunya and he has also given us some sneak peeks of his future projects.
24.04.2022
Víctor Braojos (Barcelona, 1996) is a Catalan pianist who won the second prize in the “El Primer Palau” music competition the year 2019, thanks to his performance of the Sonata n. 21 in B-flat Major D960 by Schubert. Trained at the ESMUC with Jordi Masó and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London with Martin Roscoe, from the year 2018 he lives in London, where he obtained his Master in Piano Performance and Artist Diploma.
Usually defined by the reviews as a performer of “exquisite sensitivity, intense, vehement and poetic at the same time” he has now released a new CD with repertoire focused on several composers which prove these qualities. We have chatted with him to know how is he developing his career and the touchstones of this CD, with works by Bach, Brahms, Migó and Liszt, which is the second of his career.
27.03.2022
With 26 years, the pianist Víctor Braojos, born in the Catalan village of Cardedeu, is part of the generation of Spanish performers such as Eudald Buch (1997), Mar Valor (2000) or Martín García (1996) who are shaping a hopeful future for our pianism.
Speaking particularly about Braojos, who was trained at the ESMUC in Barcelona and the Guildhall School in London –his city of residence– we are in front of a deeply analytic pianist, with a clear predilection for the romantic repertoire, of which he elaborates a ravishingly beatiful account due to the intense emotions he oozes.
11.03.2022
Víctor Braojos presents his molt personal project, Shreds of light
El 9 Nou - Vallés Oriental (Teresa Terrades)
The young pianist Víctor Braojos, born in Cardedeu and resident in London since four years ago, has come back with a new project, Shreds of light, which he is presenting this Friday at the Granollers Auditorium within the frame of the Cicle Carles Riera and also on the 25th March at the Cardedeu Auditorium, within the frame of the Festival Ressona. This new project, deeply influenced by the pandemic, has been a way to reflect the artist’s most personal thoughts...
10.03.2022
Casual interview with the colleagues at the programme Tots els Matins del món (Catalunya Música) chatting about new projects, concerns, hobbies... and several other topics which will help you to know this young musician from a more personal perspective.
28.01.2022
Víctor Braojos is a pianist of an extremely refined sensitivity who, in this occasion, presents us through his latest CD “Shreds of light” an intimate and personal project, conceived over the lockdown months, and aiming to create a chiaroscuro-like musical portrait which brings us comfort and hope.
The Partita nº2 in C minor by Bach and the mighty Liszt’s Sonata in B minor frame the delicate Three Intermezzi Op. 117 by Brahms and the overwhelming Epitafi which the Barcelona-born composer Marc Migó composed, after the terrorist attack in Barcelona back in August 2017, as a commission which Víctor Braojos world-premiered.