Barry’s Douglas’ eight-performance UK tour (including London’s Cadogan Hall) has been an incredible success and hailed by critics as “extraordinary” (Seen and Heard International) and “breathtaking” (Keighley News).

Performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 together with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra and conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Barry left audiences in awe. The Nottingham Post praised how “he drew a huge sound from the piano, combining raw Russian emotion with dazzling technique, ardent lyricism with combustible virtuoso grandeur” (Read the full review here).

During his Cadogan Hall performance of Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto “…Douglas whipped things up to an extraordinary degree of intensity but without sacrificing accuracy and the shaping of the complex thematic material was exemplary. Douglas coaxed a gorgeous burnished tone from his Steinway…capturing the brooding, ruminative flavour of the music… The pianistic fireworks of the finale were dispatched with fleet-fingered bravura…” Read the full review here.