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“…the most exciting and appropriate Beethoven Appassionata”

(Jan Swafford, author of The Vintage Guide to Classical Music)

BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

“…a truly fine program superbly played with an amazing sound”

BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

“…the challenges of Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B minor were easily met by Porter with confidence and without any gratuitous demonstrative gestures”

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

“…he delivered superbly, particularly in the Schubert B-flat Sonata, D. 960….the Schubert brought the house to its feet”

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

“...the Bach-Busoni Chaconne was invigorating, and the perfect sendoff to intermission”

BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

“…there are many fine musicians like him tucked away in corners all across the nation, who do not have the instant international name recognition of, say, an Emmanuel Ax, a Vladimir Horowitz, or, in his day, a Franz Liszt, because they choose not to be constantly on the move playing the same program in a different city every few days for a year”