Nelson Goerner

The centrepiece is the great B minor Sonata. This is an assured, confident reading that it would be easy to dismiss as ‘just another B minor’, but listen to the careful way in which Goerner... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…

to hear Nelson Goerner navigating Schumann's variety of textures with so much delicacy, good sense, beauty of tone and rapt atmospheres is a treat indeed...the intelligence, spirit and vividness... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In the Paderewski, we get sonorous tonality, smart phrasing and scintillating filigree. He shifts gears fluidly for the Godowsky, taking his time with the languorous introduction, and then introducing... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

If ever there were a piano sonata with a symphony lurking inside, it is the Brahms F minor. To Goerner’s immense credit, he doesn’t detonate the instrument in an effort to accommodate the occasionally... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

The equilibrium he achieves between formality (polonaise) and extemporisation (fantasy) is exemplary. So are the breadth, refinement and deployment of his impeccably Chopinesque tonal palette.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[the Hammerklavier] has received several amazing recordings in recent years, and Nelson Goerner’s is one of them. It is also a highly individual though never quirky account — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Right from the first bars of the first piece, Op. 9 No. 1, it’s clear that each note has been thought about – and each note’s place in the bigger musical picture…Goerner’s Chopin was special... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Goerner is a master. Though a stunning virtuoso, he never shows off; the prevailing character of his artistry is lyrical. His grasp of structure is innately dramatic, but melodrama is not his... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Goerner successfully points out the various landmarks – such as the Spanish jota motif that is woven across all four books – without distracting from the overall free-form shape of the music.... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…