''... accomplished musicianship
complemented a perfectly judged reading
of a notoriously tricky score.''
The Guardian
“Said's genial shaping of the Menuett and Trio casts
this music in a lilting light that differs from Maurizio
Pollini's etched bleakness or Glenn Gould's
dry-point humour.”
Jed Distler - Gramophone Magazine, 2019
“all dispatched with intelligence and grace.”
Nicholas Kenyon - The Observer, 2019
“He shares Sviatoslav Richter's incisively effortless octave
technique and knack for gradually meting out rubato in the
manner of a seasoned conductor (the first movement's
development section, for example)”
Jed Distler - Gramophone Magazine, 2019
‘'Karim Said was the assured piano soloist, allying clear and robust
articulation with an intelligence of phrasing way beyond his years''
Intermezzo
''.....the rich subtlety of Karim Said's pianism in Berg's
1925 chamber concerto.''
Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times
“Said is impressive technically, but even more so in that he
makes what he plays flow naturally, as if it just "is".
Hard to explain. I was close enough to watch his fingers,
unexpectedly delicate, fly across the keys.
No flamboyant bravura, rather an effortless elegance and grace.”
Classical Iconoclast
‘'...fearless virtuosity''
Musical Criticism.com
‘'Said seemed very much to have the measure of Berg's ambivalent -
or should that be dialectical - style, his position between late
Romanticism and modernity. There was some truly''
Seen and Heard International
‘'...when Said reached the first-movement cadenza (Mozart's own),
he found a poise that was revealing and carried it through to the
Adagio, here rapt and sublime.''
Classicalsource.com