Browse: Simon Trpčeski (piano)

This recording, co-produced by and starring Simon Trpčeski, makes a lovely shop window for what the composer could do with the piano...Trpčeski and trumpeter Andrei Kavalinski revel in [No. 1's]... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It is a splendid showcase, not just for the performers, but for the music: it has such a pleasing, expansive warmth and sense of relish. Apart from anything else, it sounds as if the performers... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Nos 1 & 4] have never been such sure-fire crowd-pleasers, but Trpčeski certainly plays them with fire and passion. No. 1 emerges as big-boned and compelling, while he plays up the leanly modernist... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Simon Trpceski and Vasily Petrenko present a completely integrated conception of each work...[they] know exactly when to push the musical argument forward and where it requires a bit more poise... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The sound of the Trpčeski recording is very good, offering clarity, detail, and solid, well-defined piano tone, with no ringing or blurring even in the loudest passages. This release will give... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

Simon Trpčeski and Vasily Petrenko work exceptionally well together in delivering musically insightful and rhythmically dynamic performances. The same virtues are present in this compelling Prokofiev... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Don’t be fooled by the playful title…[Makedonissimo] is is a serious affair shaped by input from ethnomusicologists and ultimately chiselled into form by a composer. The sound of the kaval and... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

Hemsing’s elegant taking-flight is signalled beautifully just after the opening piano chords of Op. 8…Trpčescki twinkles and scintillates…the finales are still relatively weak spots in the three... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If the Mozart variations are nothing special, those by Beethoven and Brahms are masterpieces, which Trpčeski conveys with his characteristic refinement. His Brahms has grave beauty, and his Beethoven... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…