Browse: Artur Pizarro (piano)

Rodrigo's piano music appears infrequently in the recital room, though excellent two-CD surveys have appeared: Gregory Allen on Bridge and Sara Marianovich on Sony. Now comes a first-class collection... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

One cannot imagine them more convincingly executed. What verve and flair [Pizarro] brings to the stamina-sapping solos, and with what graceful lyricism he invests the cantabile writing. He is... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Milhaud was an inveterate traveller who absorbed influences from many national styles.
The music here exudes infectious dance impulses, languid geniality, knockabout humour and joie de vivre.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Pizarro's brilliant and urgently committed recital ranges widely though memories of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bartok, Debussy and Ravel...you are struck at every turn by the composer's compulsive... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

[Pizarro] brings spaciousness and a fine balancing of inner parts, in chords and counterpoint alike, alongside a freedom and energy very much his own...his formidable technique provides the means... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It's curious, but however well you think you know these sonatas, the freshness and incisiveness of Pizarro's playing somehow takes you unawares. From the almost unfeasibly grave Grave introduction... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 12th February 2003 More…