"...both witty and entertaining - and superbly played"
Review of my performance of the Britten Metamorphoses in a concert for the Clitheroe Concerts Society with the Eblanas (8/2/12).
"Die 20 Jahre später (1938) entstandene Oboensonate zeigte bereits den technisch ausgereiften Tonsetzer – eine große Herausforderung, die der junge David Curington hervorragend meisterte"
Review in the Frankfurter Neue Presse of the concert in the Hindemith-Kabinett (16/11/11) where I performed the Hindemith Oboe Sonata with pianist Jeremy Young.
"...A suave reading [of the Carter Oboe Quartet] by the Eblana String Trio together with oboist-composer David Curington, whose own impressively unified quarter-tonal Oboe Quartet received its première."
Review by Paul Driver in the Sunday Times of the RNCM Chamber Music Festival 2011 including my recital together with the Eblanas.
"The Eblana String Trio and oboist David Curington, all from the Royal Northern College of Music, joined forces in a fascinatingly varied programme which opened with a beautifully flowing account of Mozart’s Oboe Quartet. They found a touching air of restrained sadness in the second movement, and their playing in the third movement was a deft combination of relaxed playfulness and precision... Elliott Carter’s Oboe Quartet, written for Heinz Holliger, got a thoroughly committed, technically adroit, performance that followed every twist and turn of the music’s narrative, from boisterously argumentative to icily calm."
Review by Mike Wheeler of the concert in Derby at the University on 11/11/11.