Critical Acclaim Concert Reviews From The International Press
"Her fingers give off sparks and she takes the keyboard into orbit."
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra & Pianist Teresa Walters Fill the House Renowned Performer Joins TSO for Special Concert Great Performance Marks Launch of $115 Million College Foundation Love of Music Celebrated on Valentine's Day A True Romantic at the Keyboard Teresa Walters Captivates Her Audience Variety of Compositions at Concert Association Peterborough Concert Association Russian Romance Begins Symphony Season Five Curtain Calls for American Pianist in Russia Review Highlights - Spring 2005 Teresa Walters's Music is Timeless and Universal Pianist Shares Musical Expertise at Performance Pianist Teresa Walters at Lancaster Opera House World Renowned Pianist Provides a Magical Night at the Playhouse "BRILLIANT MUSIC PLAYED BRILLIANTLY" TERESA WALTERS and a STEINWAY D American Record Guide: Teresa Walters Plays Serious Liszt Concert Review: Piano Virtuoso Delights a Large Crowd Journal of the Classical New Jersey Society: "She Paints Pictures No Hand Could Draw" Fanfare Magazine: "In Favor of Teresa Walters" Mortarboard: "Piano Recital Celebrates The Arts" El Norte, Monterey, Mexico: "Bright Shining Star in Recital" Austrian National Television, Vienna Budapest Sun: "International Acclaim for Teresa Walter's New CD" Klavierabend: Teresa Walters - Review of Concert April 7, 2000 Ongaku No Tomo, Japan's Leading Music Magazine: Standing Ovation for American's Japan Debut The New York Times: Pianist: Teresa Walters The London Times: Strength and Agility Kansai Yamamura Review (Japan) The Washington Post: Performing Arts: Teresa Walters New York Concert Review: Teresa Walters, Piano Classical New Jersey: Hot Beethoven American Record Guide: The Abbé Liszt: Sacred Piano Music of Franz Liszt, Teresa Walters, Pianist Press Gazette: Green Bay, Wisconsin: Pianist Sparkes With Symphony Pan Pipes Magazine - Recordings: Piano Works of Liszt, Fauré, Chopin, Debussy. Teresa Walters, Piano The Coloradoan: Pianist And Orchestra Play To Full House Classical New Jersey Review: Big Music From Teresa Walters News-Chronicle: Symphony Review: Pianist Shines Recordings: Pan Pipes Magazine: The Abbé Liszt: Sacred Piano Music. Teresa Walters, Piano Record Journal (Hartford): Pianist Impresses Concert-Goers Lincoln Journal Star, June 17, 1998: Inspired Music Dedicates Piano The Meriden Record, (CT): Music All Around Us Review Highlights - Spring 2005 "Teresa Walters - Magic Fingers!" "Virtuoso Teresa Walters in Celebrity Piano Concert: Bravo!" "Teresa Walters: Eight Notes…Eighty-eight Keys…Unlimited Possibilities! Teresa Walters's Music is Timeless and Universal
"This year, the PCU Community was privileged to host the Teresa Walters Piano Concert - an experience which surely fascinated many who attended the concert held at PhilAm Life Auditorium. Acknowledged by music lovers here and abroad for her spiritually uplifting performances, her concert featured the sacred piano pieces of composer Franz Liszt as well as music by Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Gershwin. It was indeed a privilege for us to hear Ms. Walters perform live on stage. This was one musical event not to be missed and which comes our way very rarely. Ms. Walters' music, as described by an observer, is "Timeless and Universal", making this performance unforgettable." Pianist Shares Musical Expertise at Performance "Her Soul played the Music. Her hands just touched the keys." Pianist Teresa Walters at Lancaster Opera House
"World Renowned Pianist Provides a Magical Night at the
Playhouse"
"Her music tugs at your heart immediately, sweeps you up in thunderous crashing chords and then touches you with tender melodic lines. This was one of the most magical nights you will ever spend mainstage with a concert pianist." "Teresa Walters, 'one of the world's most significant pianists' (Austrian National Television Review) performed in concert on March 5 at 7:30 pm at the Cumberland County Playhouse. Walters plays piano in the grandest of Romantic styles. An authority on Franz Liszt, Walters has performed on six continents and in most of the 50 United States. "We are fortunate to be part of her World Tour 2004," said Charles Irvin, concert series administrator at the Playhouse. Her performance officially opened the 2004 Playhouse Season.
Miss Walters's program for the evening featured three of the top ten Romantic piano pieces: The Concerto No. 2 in C minor by Rachmaninoff; Hungarian Fantasy by Liszt; and the Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor by Tchaikovsky. She is wonderful at explaining the roots of the music she plays and making the audience feel at home with her selections. The audience was particularly impressed by the big pieces, the big sounds, the stacked and double-stacked chords Miss Walters offered up with ease. "Piano Concerti a Huge
Success"
The artists received standing ovations after each musical work. In the days preceding the concert, Dr. Walters spoke to music classes about her life as an international concert pianist and her love for music. After the concert, the audience was invited to meet and speak with the artists over light refreshments.
"Encore! Pianist Teresa Walters is designed to blow you away."
A Cidade, "Teresa Walters Tours Brazil"
"Great classical interpreters with renowned qualifications are rare. All the more fortunate for the public of Ribeirão Preto to be offered the unique opportunity to appreciate the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff as interpreted by Teresa Walters, one of the world's great international pianists. The North American pianist performed at the Theatre Pedro II, presenting Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. In this style of repertoire, Rachmaninoff and Tchakiovsky stand as musical icons. The artist explained that Rachmaninoff's famous concerto was composed during a time of personal and professional rehabilitation in the composer's life. Background to this music presents an optimal opportunity to better understand two of the world's most complex composers. "International Pianist Honors International Women's Day"
"North American pianist Teresa Walters, widely-recognized as one of
the world's most important pianists, was presented in concert under the
sponsorship of Brazil's SERIE INTERNACIONAL DE CONCERTOS in her South
American debut on Saturday, March 9. The Internationally esteemed
pianist performed at Teatro UNIMEP in Sao Paulo in honor of International
Women's Day. Walters' concert provided the cultural highlight and
Grand Finale of the International event." "World Class Guest Artist Teresa
Walters: "Teresa Walters, Virtuoso
Extraordinaire: "Audience Shouts Bravo! "Teresa Walters: The Golden Crown of the Concert."
"Piano Concert Requires Crowd Control"
"Standing Ovation" Teresa
Walters Plays Serious Liszt "This is serious Liszt...exciting...profound...very musical and quite lovely. Walter's obvious sincerity, spontaneity, and tone coloring are very effective and make this most enjoyable."
"This is serious Liszt. The first two pieces here are from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses, and they along with others express a deep devotional commitment. This is the second of Teresa Walter's recordings devoted to Abbé Liszt, and as Allen Linkowski said of the first, she seems committed to this repertoire and has the technique and imagination to bring it off. She plays with a flexible rubato that is particularly effective in the lovely Hymne de la Nuit and the sonata, turning the bombastic rhetoric of the latter into a lyrical tone poem. There are other performances of the sonata that are similarly exciting (Richter) and the profound (Curzon), but this one is very musical and quite lovely in its own way. Walters' obvious sincerity, spontaneity, a nd tone coloring are very effective and make this most enjoyable." Concert Review: Piano Virtuoso Delights a Large Crowd
Journal of the
Classical New Jersey Society "The listener becomes
engulfed in Teresa Walters' playing..." "The Octagon at the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown was filled to capacity for the "Liszt and Literature" recital by Teresa Walters. She is an artist who has her own brand of 'Lisztian' theater, but it is the Abbé Liszt of calm spirituality, not the overly flamboyant persona". "Dr. Walter's spoken program notes were of the highest quality: concise, eloquent, and memorized so there was nothing 'off the cuff' about her measured elocution. Her recitation of the Petrarch sonnets was a model of clarity. The same virtues are, of course, those which allow the listener to become engulfed in Teresa Walters' playing. Whether delivering Liszt's biggest powerhouse passages or his most delicate proto-Impressionist color swatches, it was her ability to paint pictures which no hand could draw which gripped the audience. Her encore of a "Benediction" was the most academically interesting; it had existed only as a manuscript in a notebook for over 100 years and was only recently published. It concluded the concert on a wistful note".
Fanfare Magazine
Timings can be very misleading, but they do give some idea as to Walters's view of the great B-Minor Sonata. In the hands of Shura Cherkassky, a pianist who was known to linger over much-loved phrases, the total time on his Decca release comes to 28:52. For Walters that increases to 32:44, a variance of significance, most of the difference occurring in the opening section. You have to go only as far as 1:49 in the opening section, where Walters makes much of the repeated notes, to realize that she has a propensity to underline many aspects of the score, and our attention is often forcefully drawn to secondary voices within the music. This forms part of her greater artistic freedom throughout the work. The key that will unlock the door to her approach comes in the notes Walters has written in the accompanying booklet, in which she points to the work representing the eternal struggle between good and evil. This is potently created in her interpretation, the sudden switch from the poetic to the satanic forces being very marked, with dynamic indications used to their full extent to meet this view. Walters certainly does not lack the technique to make this a reading that combines ardor and forcefulness, and listeners may well enjoy this singular, and obviously deeply considered approach. In the various works Walters gathers together as a group of "Sacred Pieces" we have a reversal, with tempos that have greater urgency than we find in other recorded performances. Indeed, one aspect I enjoy is an avoidance of religious sentimentality, the works emerging as a formidable display of technical dexterity and red-blooded power. From the Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses, Walters conjures up all the religious fervor in the opening section of "Pensée des morts"; the final transformation, at the sight of faith and hope, is beautifully gauged. The three hymns are all performed with a sense of vocal phrasing, and are free of the bombast to which they can easily fall prey. The final Alleluia is nicely paced and full of joy. The recording has that much-admired sound quality totally unpolluted by venue ambiance, the piano being an instrument that "talks" easily even in the pianissimo passages. Those who are looking for the seldom recorded sacred pieces will find a great deal to enjoy here, and they will most certainly have a very extraordinary approach to the Sonata." Classical New Jersey:
Paul Somers, Editor and Music Reviewer for the Classical New Jersey Society, attended the concert and said, "There is always a high level of spirituality about Teresa Walters' performances supported by incredible technique. It was a wonderful concert." He added, "Dr. Walters is a Liszt expert who has performed his music in Hungary at the invitation of Hungarians. She is just the person to create such a program and to play it with feeling." Teresa Walters' appearance at the College is part of an intense international schedule that includes Europe, Asia, North and South America. In May, Walters performs in India under the sponsorship of Trans World Radio. Her performances in India include benefit concerts for the Good Samaritans Children's School in New Delhi, a concert for earthquake relief and performances with the Bombay Symphony at the new National Center for the Performing Arts.
El Norte, Monterrey, Mexico
Her recital was so intense that in some instances the charismatic Liszt embodied her
fingers and traveled through time to present himself to the audience of Monterrey. The
pianist, recognized worldwide for her consummate artistry and interpretive powers, offered
a recital dedicated to the Hungarian composer, considered to be a performer without rival
in the history of music. It was impossible to ignore the delicious explanations and "Keynote Comments"™ this acknowledged New York artist gave to the audience. Walters performed every note not only with her hands but with her soul. With an incredible interpretive strength, combined with a technical control that changed her piano into an orchestra, Teresa Walters offered much more than a piano recital. "Music expresses the words of the soul, the universal and eternal language," she said in Spanish as an introduction to her recital. She spoke with her soul indeed, in every note of the concert entitled "Liszt and Literature". Organized by the Instituto Laureans in celebration of its 115th Anniversary, the recital lived up to its promise as a musical evening full of artistry. Walters brought many musical jewels to the city. The night began with the Invocation from "Harmonies Poétiques et Réligieuses", a perfect introduction to the spirituality and melodic beauty of the musical selections to follow. Immediately she delighted her audience with three hymns, "Hymn of Morning", "Hymn of Night", and "Hymn of the Pope". The first notes of these hymns were charged with images, allowing the audience to visualize the mist at daybreak clearing out to the sun, first muted and then splendid. Her interpretation was so brilliant that the drops of mist were almost felt. Later, with "Hymn of Night", it was possible to observe the setting of the sun and the arrival of the moon, with the twinkle of every star. In the second part of the program there was an opportunity to hear the secular side of Liszt, the master of love songs. In "Romance" and later, with two "Sonnets of Petrarch", No. 104 and 123, inspired by Francesco Petrarca's poems from the 14th century, all of the music's lyricism was evident from this musical genius. Finally, to close the musical soiree, the pianist performed the "Canticle of the Sun" , a piece inspired from a poem written by St. Francis of Assisi. The audience did not want to let her go, even after she was presented with a recognition award. The artist then went back to the piano and played a rare Liszt encore, "Benediction". After an extended standing ovation, Walters left the stage. She left, but Liszt, her spirit and her remarkable piano playing lived on in every listener's memory." Even in this music capital of the world, it is rare to experience a musical event of such transcendental beauty and lasting impression. Paying tribute to the anniversary of Franz Liszt's birth in a televised recital at the composer's birthplace, the stunning American pianist Teresa Walters provided a spell-binding musical evening for a standing-room-only audience. Seated in the first rows were prominent dignitaries from all areas of Austrian life. If the pianist's playing on this occasion is the standard of her art, her growing reputation as one of the world's most significant pianists is well earned. Walking onstage in a concert gown of ruby velvet, the telegenic pianist mesmerized her audience with a program entitled "Liszt and Literature" incorporating the composer's secular and sacred music. Teresa Walters is that rare musical phenomenon - a pianist born to the instrument. With a virtuoso's vision and a poet's soul, she created a magic with the music that would have delighted Liszt himself. Following a standing ovation, Walters was presented with gifts and momentos from dignitaries in attendance, including a limited edition Liszt watch from the President of Austria's Liszt Society and a framed art original of Liszt's birthplace by Burgermeister Alois Nohrer. After a private tour of the Liszt Museum, the pianist was guest of honor at a celebratory dinner held in the convivial atmosphere of a Burgenland wine cellar. International Acclaim for Teresa Walters' New CD - The Budapest Sun "American concert pianist Teresa Walters celebrates Liszt's Birthday with prestigious European recitals this month. These performances coincide with the release of her second CD in the Abbé Liszt Series, devoted to Liszt's rare, little-known sacred piano works. Her first volume was nominated for the Hungarian Liszt Society's Grand Prix du Disque. Her new CD includes selections from Liszt's Harmonies Poétiques et Réligieuses (Invocation, Pensées des morts, Hymne du Matin, Hymne de la Nuit, L'Hymne du Pape), Ave Maria d'Arcadelt, Alleluia, and Sonata in B minor. Walters' new CD, recorded at The Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, demonstrates her great understanding of the composer and her sensitivity to his message. She glides across the Steinway at times with a sweeping energy and gusto, playing effortlessly with power and intensity. In the Hymn de la Nuit, the tone is more muted, somber and atmospheric with Walters' technical skills on display. The key of F Major is employed in both the serene Ave Maria d'Arcadelt and the majestic Alleluia, where her fingers give off sparks and Walters takes the keyboard into orbit." "On the heels of her second CD in The Abbé Liszt Series, the keyboard virtuosity of Teresa Walters has earned her special honor. Her taste in Liszt is adventurous. Walters is a specialist in the Liszt's lesser-known religious music, written toward the end of his life when the flashy Hungarian pianist and composer (1811-1886) surprised his huge public by taking vows of the Roman Catholic Church. The CD is devoted to the composer's sacred music and his masterwork Sonata in B minor. Teresa Walters earns high marks from critics for her interpretations." - The Sunday Record (NJ) "World-renowned pianist Teresa Walters pays tribute to the music of Franz Liszt performing the selections on her latest CD, entitled Liszt: Sacred Piano Music and Sonata in B minor (Archangelus Records Release #79772). Prolific pianist Walters and Liszt have a truly harmonious and amorous relationship. This concert pianist who has played all over the world keeps Liszt close to her heart." - The Telegraph (IL) Klavierabend
Teresa Walters
"Teresa Walters greatly impressed the public not only with her astonishing playing, but also by her fascinating and visionary stage presence. Tall and slender, with a flowing mane of shining blonde hair and in two ravishing, glittering evening gowns, she captivated the audience in the manner of the late, great Master himself. With the perfect style and scintillating understanding of the total work of art (Gesamptkunstwerk), she sat at the piano, creating no less than a music as sensitive as the inner "Speech of the Soul," and as distinguished and overwhelmingly effective as the extravagant, eccentric genius of Liszt." "With the power, temperment, stupendous consummate mastery and immense mental prowess of a true virtuoso, she played in the first part six pieces from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. These works were a diffuse combination of virtuosity and religious thought and feeling. Teresa Walters created with these works colorful and contrasting impressions, commenting that these works were inspired by the poetry of Lamartine and by ancient Catholic liturgical music." "The huge, multi-faceted B-minor Sonate in the second part of the evening shone forth as the complete and revered masterwork of the composer. The pianist conquered the difficult composition with consummate technical mastery, complete understanding of the formal architecture, and impressive stamina and endurance. She held the enthralled audience spellbound by her mastery of the work's many difficulties. As needed within the structure of the work, she played the open Steinway with a masculine power alternating with a tender intimacy. The evening concluded with a gracious reception, during which the audience enjoyed the opportunity to meet the artist and to thank her for a truly magnificent performance." Ongaku
No Tomo, Japan's Leading Music Magazine
The New York Times "A music ready, willing, and able to make the grand gesture, TERESA WALTERS tackled a program of large-scaled, big-boned pieces, and she sailed through them with an easy fluency that made each one sound like child's play. For her major effort, Walters offered the Liszt Sonata. There was much to admire. The crashing octave runs were all right on the mark. Not a note was smudged in the pages of intricate passagework, and her general conception had all the requisite sweep, power, and warm sonority. The program also included Bach-Busoni, Granados, Ben Weber and Leonardo Balada. Each piece received the same immaculate treatment." The London Times "For her Wigmore Hall debut, TERESA WALTERS spared herself nothing in an enormous programme which included Beethoven's Op. 78 as well as Bartok and Liszt sonatas. The Beethoven was given a relaxed interpretation, with deft use of the una corda pedal, a contrast indeed to the violence of Bartok's controlled explosion. Here Walters seemed most comfortable, controlling the outer movements with a dynamic, driving momentum, taking the fruitful approach in the acerbic central movement. With the Liszt, her playing revealed an enormous talent." "TERESA WALTERS, noted American pianist, presented a recital Saturday night at the Concert Hall of Jerusalem. The program included Beethoven's Sonata Op. 78, the Sonnets of Petrarch of Liszt, and the Bartok and Liszt sonatas. Her playing was poetic and artistic in the Beethoven Op. 78. Her performances of Liszt and the Bartok were marvelous. As close to perfect as I hope to hear. I look forward to her return to Israel." "Pianist TERESA WALTERS presented a poetic, captivating performance. The audience responded with great enthusiasm to her sensitive interpretation." Kansai Yamamura Review (Japan) "To experience Teresa Walters in performance is to understand the universal appeal of this visionary American pianist. When she walks onstage, her intense musicality fills the atmosphere of the entire concert hall like a beautiful musical fragrance. Her playing captivates the listener as only an artist completely devoted to music can do. In a virtuoso program of great musical contrasts, she both filled the hall with powerful, thundering sound and with the most exquisite delicacy of tone, like soft feathers floating in the wind. In the grand tradition of Franz Liszt, she is a pianist with rare gifts." "TERESA WALTERS appeared as Melisande with her golden hair caressing her red gown." "Teresa Walters is a splendid musician whose marvelous technical prowess and rich expressive resources create music of intimate introspection, orchestral grandeur, themes appearing in ever-varying guises, and the most minute inflections of color, both loud and soft. The "Années de Pelerinage" (Years of Pilgrimage) fared well in her hands, which easily managed Liszt's shimmering cascades of luminescence suggesting the fountains of the Villa d'Este. And Walters transformed the delicate fluttering of birds' wings into glistening tremolos in St. Francis of Assisi's Sermon to the Birds." New York Concert Review "TERESA WALTERS all-Liszt program at Merkin Hall on March 23 showcased some of Liszt's familiar works as well as a big helping of rarities from his sacred music genre. I first got to know the opening work Invocation from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuse, from a magisterial recording by Aldo Ciccolini. For my money, Teresa Walters took the music farther, technically and spiritually. Walters has a huge, rolling sound that never splinters or becomes percussive in the least, and a natural inclination to spin long lines that flow freely to their destinations. She makes music like an eagle surveying the landscape. Her miraculous playing had moments of great eloquence and deep feeling. Tremolos were miraculously sustained in the way Walters magically transformed the keyboard into a resonating heavenly marimba. It was a transcendental performance." "The Morris Choral Society and Orchestra with Teresa Walters as soloist produced a vibrant performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. Pianist TERESA WALTERS played the solo passages, including the long opening cadenza, with a meditative legato that put one in mind of a halo surrounding the artistic utterances. Even the most sprightly passages rang with solemnity. She played extremely well, her head ecstatically thrown back. The Chorus, when it made its entrance, clearly had a good time." American
Record Guide "This new Archangelus disc is the first in a series devoted to the piano music of the composer's last 21 years. This well-planned recording covers some familiar ground as well as some comparative rarities. TERESA WALTERS seems committed to this repertoire and has the technique and imagination to bring it off. The works offered here display a spiritual world expressed with the utmost simplicity combined with the most complex virtuosity. Her competition is virtually nil; Walters communicates this music very well. She also supplies informative notes and has been well-recorded." Press
Gazette: Green Bay, Wisconsin "An excellent pianist and a world premiere were the highlights Saturday night as the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra presented its final concert of the season. The pianist was TERESA WALTERS, an elegant young woman who played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major with consummate elegance and grace. Her approach throughout was lyrical and poetic. This serene and highly successful interpretation was matched successfully by conductor and orchestra. In the first movement cadenza, Walters knit together the disparate sections well. Her second movement was languid and mysterious, while the third showed Walters could be intense, even feisty, if called upon. The overall mood was one of graceful composure and appealing lyricism." Pan
Pipes Magazine - Recordings "Teresa Walters concertizes internationally, specializing in the music of Liszt. On this disc, she performs pieces beginning with the famous Hungarian Rhapsody #2 and the Liebestraum, going on to the later part of his life when he turned to the church, taking orders as an Abbé. Walters meets the bravura demands of the first group with blazing technical skill combined with beautiful tone and phrasing. The more introspective sacred numbers are treated with sensitivity and attention to color. Between the two groups she plays three Chopin Preludes, Debussy's Serenade for the Doll, and Fauré's Song Without Words with delicacy or power as required. This disc offers a real contrast of styles and moods - both are extremely worthwhile." "Opening the anniversary season Sunday night at Lincoln Center, orchestra and soloist played to a full house. The musical selections reflected a spirit of ascent and triumph. The full orchestra took the stage for Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, with TERESA WALTERS as soloist. In this performance, soloist and orchestra created a stunningly energetic camaraderie. Pianist TERESA WALTERS performed the concerto with much power, grace, and precision. She exhibited great control in the arpeggios sections, where every note was distinct." Bach-Busoni Chaconne, Rachmaninoff's Op. 23 Preludes, Lili Boulanger's Trois Morceaux Pour Piano, George Walker's Variations on a Kentucky Theme, Liszt's Harmonies Poetique et Religieuses. "BIG MUSIC FROM BIG HANDS would be an apt description of TERESA WALTERS' recital. Her execution was flawless. But it went far beyond that. Walters is a colorist who made the Impressionist label stick on Rachmaninoff and produced Liszt performances that made Debussy sound like an imitator. Walters clearly has a point of view about Liszt and his successors and about how to play them. Monstrous technical requirements, so well executed by Walters, lay partially obscured by her esthetic sensibility. The effect was to connect smaller units into larger statements, revealing the virtuosity required. Walters' virtuosity and pedalling combined the units into a single larger entity, so what she accomplished was structural as well as coloristic. When it came down to Liszt, in Walters' hands, he became proto - everybody else on the program. What was revealed in her probing program was that Liszt was not only an innovator, but paradoxically the summation of all who followed him." News-Chronicle "The Symphony kept company Saturday evening with a stunningly beautiful and talented pianist named TERESA WALTERS. The opening selection of the evening was Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, performed in the lyrical, personally inimitible style of soloist Teresa Walters. Declining to conform to the traditional "bombast" school of interpretation, she emphasized the composition's lyricism, sensitivity and intelligence, attributes which she, herself, appears to possess in abundance." Recordings:
Pan Pipes Magazine "This disc offers compositions spanning most of Liszt's life, with a wide range of styles from the virtuoso display we expect from Liszt to technically more restrained harmonizations of chorale melodies. However, the flashy technical passages here seem less obviously bravura and more in service to the music than those of many other of his compositions. TERESA WALTERS is a fine pianist with rich, even tone, an excellent sense of line, and a technique which more than meets the demands of this music. The variety and balance of the compositions she selected make it exceptionally worthwhile."
Lincoln Journal
Star, June 17, 1998 "Inspired by God? Ask any of the audience members who attended Teresa Walters' dedicatory recital Tuesday night on the church's new concert grand piano, and they'll tell you it's true. Walters is an expert on the music of Franz Liszt. A veteran of Europe's finest concert halls, Walters takes her Liszt performances to Australia, Japan, and Hungary in the upcoming season. The Opus 23 Preludes of Sergei Rachmaninoff found her all over the keyboard at lightning speed. Delicate runs were separated with clarity. Walters told the crowd that Rachmaninoff was a "seeker" all his life, finding in music a source of healing. Walters studies have concentrated on the unpublicized side of Liszt, who decided on the priesthood late in his life. His later music reflected religious messages that the secular world ignored in his time, liking the raucous Liszt better, she said. The movements from Liszt's "Poetic and Religious Harmonies" received outstanding renderings. Walters called the "Funerailles" Liszt's answer to "When the Saints Go Marching In." Her strong, decisive keyboard technique hammered home this concept in the work's ending, a breathtaking opening of the heavens to see that gilded city of angels in all its splendor. Liszt's "Psalm 42" was absolutely flawless, and the "Alleluia" an incomparable encounter with the essence of what makes Liszt's sacred music come alive for those strong enough to believe it. A standing ovation greeted Walters on the completion of the Alleluia. As a special gift to the audience, she played a Liszt edition of the "Ave Maria of Arcadelt", which is soon to be published. The work appears to be yet another revelation of the majesty of Liszt's later compositions inspired from heaven above. Walters herself seems full of that same inspiration." "The enthusiasm of notable musicians was aroused by the unusual technical prowess and expressive powers of pianist TERESA WALTERS. Tall and slender, with a wealth of waist-long blond hair, Walters wore a white gown for the concert. Displaying astonishing ability and amazing stamina, she performed a demanding program of works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Paganini-Liszt, and Samuel Barber. Almost always, the pianist sat erect before the open Steinway, infrequently looking at the keys, even in very fast, complicated passages. Her relaxation undoubtedly accounted for her exceptional singing tone and warm sonorities in the bass. To this reviewer, her finest playing was the Sonata, Opus 26, by Samuel Barber. Her playing conveyed deep feeling. She thoroughly understood the work and conquered its many difficulties, winning her audience. The Adagio mesto welled up as a fervent and very beautiful petition. The jazzy theme successfully augmented the last movement. Clarity, grace and sheer loveliness built to a final huge climax. The intensely gratified audience was treated to an additional encore from a Haydn Sonata. This she played with consummate skill."
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"Award winning and internationally acclaimed pianist, Teresa Walters performed in our area on Sunday, September 26th at the Mansion at Cabrini College. Teresa Walters graced the community with her exclusive talent and played the piano with great passion and full emotion. The mansion was the perfect setting for this event. As the music echoed off the detailed walls of the mansion, you could picture a scene in your mind from the late eighteen hundreds. One of the famous composers played for a room full of wealthy people as they enjoyed a magical evening. 
"On Monday, March 29, piano virtuosi Teresa Walters and Richard Frank performed for a standing-room only audience in the Mahoney Library Octagon at the College of Saint Elizabeth. The program featured concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Liszt. The artists performed the difficult works on two Steinway pianos, with Dr. Walters performing the solo piano parts and Mr. Frank performing the orchestral accompaniments. Mr. Frank is President and founder of the Liszt Society of Japan and Switzerland.
"Teresa Walters is a commanding presence onstage. The tall, slender, elegant lady strode to the piano in her crimson gown and flowing, waist-length blonde hair. Her performance combined both great technical command of the keyboard and an exceptional sense of the heart and soul of the music she performed. She is an artist clearly at home with the music of Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Debussy, and Liszt. Walters led the audience on a magical musical tour.
"Having the recent pleasure of traversing the Naxos cycle of the piano works by
Liszt, a series that employs various pianists, one soon realizes the multifarious styles
that can be justifiably used in the interpretation of his very differing scores. It is to
some extent the background knowledge of the composer's complex nature that induces these
widely differing views of his music. This long preamble is to set the scene for a response
to this new Archangelus release from Teresa Walters, an American pianist who brings a very
personal approach to Liszt. Comparing this group of works with the Naxos recordings or
Leslie Howard on Hyperion, I always come down in favor of Teresa Walters. 
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist and Artist-In-Residence at the College of St.
Elizabeth in Morristown, Teresa Walters performed before a full house in the Octagon of Mahoney Library on
Thursday, March 8 preceded by an Arts Center Development Dinner. The standing-room-only
concert included selections from Liszt's Harmonies Poétiques et
Réligieuses, Three Hymns, Romance, Sonnets of Petrarch, and
St Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun. "The
magnificent Liszt concert was a celebration of the arts," said Sr. Francis
Raftery,
President of the College. A veteran of the world's greatest concert stages, Teresa Walters
has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Cortot
in Paris, and the Great Hall of Moscow. ' 
"The brilliant, translucent and extremely expressive performance of Teresa Walters
transmitted the feeling of strength and spirituality to the audience gathered this past
Tuesday evening at Monterrey's City Theater. The melodious beauty of the piano, with all
the emotional depth, power, and spirituality that made Franz Liszt's public go wild during
his lifetime, came to life again in Monterrey through the hands and heart of American
pianist Teresa Walters. 
"A Liszt Recital in the grand manner was
presented under the auspices of the Franz Liszt Society of Switzerland. The
prestigious organization sponsored American pianist Teresa Walters, an international
specialist in the piano music of Franz Liszt, and prizewinner of the Grand Prix du
Disque of the Hungarian Liszt Society. She has been invited to return to
Budapest to present the Anniversary Concert on the occasion of the composer's
birthday."
"American pianist Teresa Walters,
recognized internationally as a specialist in the music of Franz Liszt, performed an
all-Liszt recital in the first performance of her Japan tour. The first portion of
the program featured works on religious subjects, including Three Hymns, selections from Harmonies
Poétiques et Religeuses, Ave Maria d'Arcadelt and Alleluia. The
final portion of the program featured Liszt's Sonata in B minor. Liszt's
religious works demand not only a structural understanding but also an ability to
empathize with Liszt's religious sensibilities which pervade these works. TERESA
WALTERS' performance conveyed just such powerful feeling and intensity. Her affinity
as a pianist for the composer's innermost feelings and ideas was conveyed to the audience
so passionately that she became a direct messenger of Liszt's thoughts. In the Hymn
of Morning, one could palpably sense the morning light dawning and streaming down from
the skies. In the Hymn of Night, she created a quietly falling curtain of
evening, evoking a sensuousness and rapturous quality emanating from a dreamlike
meditative state. The audience left with a feeling of ecstasy, so spiritually
powerful was her interpretation of the very essence of Liszt's music."
"TERESA WALTERS, pianist, greatly impressed an
enthusiastic audience in a program of Bach, Granados, Ben Weber, and Liszt. The
pianist showed tremendous resources of physical and mental power, a formidable technique
and interpretive gifts. The difficult concert revealed rare stamina for any
artist. In earlier days, we would have said, for a woman. Walters' long,
strong fingers proved equal in any chain of fast, loud octaves, at a sustained
forte. Mentally, she kept structurally clear and beautifully articulated the most
intricate thicket of repeated phrases. The Bach-Busoni Chaconne brought out Walters'
depth of tone and sense of mission. The massive work was both thoughtful and thought
provoking. In the Spanish idiom, "The Maiden and the Nightingale" and
"Los Requiebros" demanded and received ingratiating coloration. Two
contemporary pieces seemed especially dear to the soloist. Balada's
"Persistencies", represented by Walters as "computer-like" was
imaginatively performed. Only a virtuoso pianist could possibly attempt it.
Walters gave the concluding Liszt Sonata the most polished presentation of the
evening. Exquisite soft tones for the rapturous soft melodies, brilliant thunderous
runs, magnificent octave passages, and notable elegance mark Teresa Walters as a most
distinguished artist."