By Everett Evans
Houston Chronicle

Pianist Jeremy Denk made an impressive Houston Symphony debut Friday evening at Jones Hall — displaying not only technical virtuosity but a genuinely expressive style in his work as soloist for Bach's Piano Concerto No. 1 ...

Denk dispatched with aplomb the first movement's virtual perpetual motion exercise for keyboard, playing with force yet also delicacy in the intricate filigree.  He gave a pensive, yet deeply felt air to the somber-hued adagio, with the string players handling their side of the dialogue sensitively — particularly their great restraint in the movement's closing measures.   Denk exerted driving energy in his nimble handling of the work's Allegro finale. He acknowledged the appreciative reception with an encore: an artfully phrased, exquisitely nuanced reading of the Allemande from Bach's Partita No. 4.