Shai Wosner

sometimes it's like listening to two people excitedly bouncing ideas off each other; at others it's like a love duet, or even the kind of intense parting conversation in which every word counts... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding many moments of illumination. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

The Liszt becomes a meditation on a chord; the second Ives piece twinkles, glows, and glowers; the Chopin pieces are given ravishingly delicate colouring, the Gershwin emerges as a silkily-delivered... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

he maintains a ferociously individual voice...But it is in the Kodaly that Ishizaka seems most at home...this dazzling recital can leave the listener in no doubt of the specialness of Ishizaka's... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

[Wosner] responds to every twist and turn with a sense of great immediacy as well as an airy, high-stepped poise and unerring pointing-up of Ligeti’s deliciously unpredictable rhythms. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016 More…

A fascinating, satisfying programme...Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner have clearly made great efforts to enter the expressive world of all the composers, and the performances show a high level of... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…