Alburnum, recording with baritone Brian Mulligan (Bright Shiny Things)
“Mulligan’s endlessly elastic dramatic baritone…coupled with pianist Timothy Long’s virtuosic and nuanced playing, are thrilling and captivating…”
– Opera News, May, 2023
“Timothy Long is the ideal collaborator…”
– Gramophone, January, 2023
Pro Musicis recital with soprano Rachel Schutz (Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall)
“Let’s take a moment to offer kudos to the excellent pianist Timothy Long, who was an outstanding collaborator and a force…”
– New York Concert Review, November 28, 2021
New York City recital with Brian Mulligan (Baruch Performing Arts Center)
“Long conjured up Hardy’s Funeral (January 1928) most marvelously with tolling bells, bleak hymns, and occasional bursts of dappled sunlight.”
— Musical America, March, 2019
“The second Woolf song, “Anxiety,” proved a tour de force for the duo, the pianist (Long) doubling the singer’s agitated line in precise unison, amidst constantly-changing meters, while executing a presto toccata himself.”
— New York Classical Review, March, 2019
“Pianist Timothy Long, Mulligan’s regular musical partner, supported him most sympathetically throughout, while offering a wealth of detail in the work’s reflective preludes and postludes. This was a distinguished premiere of an impressive new song cycle.”
— Musical America, March, 2019
“…pianist Long shaped Spears’s minimalistic repeated figures to support the text, and easily took the ball and ran with it in expressive preludes and interludes. Even the seemingly-simple chordal sections in the Woolf songs contained many subtle variations and inflections crucial to the meaning of the text, and Long made those moments tell.”
— New York Classical Review, March, 2019
Kennedy Center recital with Brian Mulligan (Vocal Arts DC)
“Long’s collaboration at the piano was so sympathetically symbiotic that it seemed, both in Walden and in Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf in the program’s second half, that a single musical intelligence was at work.”
— Washington Post, September, 2018
“Pianist Timothy Long, playing with unflagging evenness and crisp articulation, wove textures that projected clarity, inevitability and the occasional flash of light.”
— Washington Classical Review, September, 2018
“Walden, with texts drawn from Henry David Thoreau, was composed for baritone Brian Mulligan who, with pianist Timothy Long, delivered a gripping performance.”
— Washington Post, September, 2018
“The eight excerpts from Woolf’s diaries are organized chronologically and sample from a buffet of her neuroses; it is left to the piano to provide the scenery and to reflect the inner turmoil, which Long did expertly. He was a solemn, resonant organ and a gentle choir for “Hardy’s Funeral,” a street dance-band for “Rome” and distant echoes of a hymn for “Parents,” all rendered with splendid support for Mulligan.”
— Washington Classical Review, September, 2018
Dominick Argento recording with Brian Mulligan (Naxos)
“Timothy Long provides masterfully sculpted renditions of the varied and challenging piano parts, which range from spare and crystalline (evoking the icy North) to rolling and transcendent.”
— Opera News, February, 2018
“…Mulligan relaxes into the three roles he must play and, with Long brilliantly at his side, mines a succession of poignant gem-like moments, exquisite distillations of love and brief emotional surges…”
— Gramophone, October, 2017
“In both cycles, the piano-writing puts the pianist into a nearly equal relationship, which Long handles splendidly.”
— Gramophone, October, 2017
“With pianist Timothy Long, Mulligan makes an extraordinary journey of sound in both song sets. The Andrée Expedition is divided into two parts, and Argento writes a crystal-clear picture of the explorers' shift from strapping confidence and heroic pride, to quiet fatigue and even tacit regret. In their letters and diaries, Salomon Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and Knut Froenkel started off with a manly excitement for discovery; it's something that Mulligan and Long depict with bold, crashing sounds and triumphant cries.”
— Schmopera, October, 2017
Solo Piano Recital (Memorial Art Gallery)
“Pianist Tim Long blended turbulence with repose…
His third movement was dazzlingly forceful as it built toward an overwhelming finale.
…a dramatic, fiery performance.
…a pianist who combined powerful playing with a gentle touch.”Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April, 1994