“Perhaps her musical personality shone through most clearly in ‘Image Terrestre’, written especially for her by fellow Canadian Jean Coulthard. Restless and bold – a great vehicle for Margaret Bruce’s terrific spirit and technique.”
Pennine Spring Festival 2005
“Antonin Tucapsky’s Fantasia quasi una Sonata is impressively large-scaled and dramatic, with a far-away lyricism reminiscent of Scriabin. It was given a powerful reading by pianist Margaret Bruce who revealed it’s sweep superbly.”
Winnipeg Free Press
“Last Thursday Margaret Bruce gave a solo recital at the Purcell Room, London. Apart from her fine technique, Margaret Bruce has a sensitive feeling for rhythm and timbre. She successfully introduced Tucapsky’s Fantasia as a brilliant, as well as deeply poetic work.”
BBC World Service
“Berkeley’s ‘Four Piano Studies’ must count amongst his strongest and most original compositions. They were given a brilliant first performance by Margaret Bruce, for whom they were written.”
Gramophone Review
“On June 21st 1984, Margaret Bruce gave an imaginatively planned and thoughtfully and energetically executed recital at the Purcell Room. She began with Schumann’s Fantasia in C, Op.17, inviting comparison with pianistic giants, and calling upon the utmost of a player’s physical stamina. Margaret Bruce rose to the technical challenge spiritedly and effectively and conveyed the subtleties of mood and feeling hinted at in the title and outlined in her own programme notes.”
Czech Music Journal of the Dvorak Society of Great Britain
“The solo part of Martinn’s Sinfonietta Giocasa for piano and orchestra was impressively played by Margaret Bruce at St. John’s Smith Square. This scintillating and witty piece juxtaposes a bewildering variety of elements with all the aplomb of a juggler with his clubs and balls. Margaret Bruce presented her busy, if often ungrateful, part with clear affection for its idiosyncrasy.”
Bryce Morrison
“Thank you again for all your kindness and help and, above all, for your exquisite, excellent and really ravishing presentation of my Cioconna. You gave a true understanding and masterly telling interpretation.”
Letter from Jarmil Burghauser to Margaret Bruce
