TESTIMONIALS TO PLAYING
“Carol Tainton has played with me in countless concerts and recordings with the RSO Berlin. She has also taken on extremely difficult solo tasks at the opera and in symphony concerts in Hamburg. She is a brilliant accompanist, her pianistic skills are of the highest merit.”
Gerd Albrecht, chief conductor of the Hamburg State Opera
“As principal conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, it has been my pleasure over the last 18 months to work with Carol Tainton.
She has played various keyboards with the NDR Symphony Orchestra – always to a very high degree of technical proficiency and consummate artistry. She has also acted as accompanist and coach on vocal productions and displayed exactly the right combination of reticence and musical creativity. Singers included Barbara Bonney, Anne Sophie v Otter, Kurt Rydl, Anthony Rolfe-Johnsen and Christoph Pregardien.”
John Eliot Gardiner
“Carol Tainton has played for my performances of the Passions, Christmas Oratorios, Masses, Requiems and Cantatas with the Michaelis Choir in Hamburg for years. The performances took place in Hamburgs popular main church, “Michel”.
She worked independently with the singers and accompanied them with unusual sensitivity. Singers included
Christiane Oelze, Peter Schreier, Siegfried Lorenz, Peter Blochwitz, Theo Adam and Hannah Schwarz.
I have always enjoyed performing with her. As duo partner in Bach’s double concertos during the Bach Days, I valued her virtuosity and reliability.”
Gunther Jena, Cantor St. Michaelis Choir
Press
MOZART D minor PIANO CONCERT KV 466
“Carol Tainton’s glowing tone, the dazzling virtuosity, the pianistic poetry, the flawlessness of this far more than just idyllic playing were highly appropriate for this outstanding Mozart concerto..” (Kiel News)
J.S. BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
“Anyone who chooses this formal gigantic work knows there can be no complacence, no respite. Carol Tainton accomplished this demanding task with the utmost excellence. There was no uncertainty, no fluttering of her apparently infallible memory, no limits to her array of virtuosity.
The difficult work presented itself with absolute mastery and ease.
The interpretation was also stylistically brilliant in every aspect.” (Karl Grebe, Die Welt)
LIEDER EVENING
“Carol Tainton is the congenial accompanist of Helen Kwon. She enticed so much melos and tender poetry from her instrument, that the hidden mysterious moods in Wolfs composition were laid bare in a beguiling manner.” (Westphalen Blatt)
BEETHOVEN, MOZART PIANO-WIND QUINTETTS
“The execution was excellent. This was the highest school of finely polished chamber music, bringing both Mozarts and Beethovens scores to splendid rendition.” (Morgenpost, Berlin)
BRAHMS PIANO QUINTETT in F minor
“The RSO musicians with Carol Tainton played this youthful dark ballade..with intensity, emphasizing the growling and brooding,
the defiance and pride of this wonderfully unruly work. Enthusiastic applause.”
(Tagesspiegel Berlin)
Audios
Concert recordings by Carol Tainton, Winfried Rüssmann, (orchestra leader) and members of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra