Vocal, Scriabin (composer)

No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Many of us will have in our collections recordings of certain live piano recitals that have achieved legendary status...Yuja Wang’s Verbier debut should be placed alongside them. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…

In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... — International Piano, January 2020 More…

Frang is on supremely agile and graceful form, but it’s rather a musical pick-and-mix. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Johannes Moser and Andrei Korobeinikov bring both muscle and imagination to these two epic Russian sonatas — BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Best of all is their selection of six of Shostakovich’s piano preludes: these could have been written for bassoon, so perfectly does the instrument lend itself to the quickfire vamping and staccato... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…