Browse: Jonathan Biss (piano)

In 2006 EMI signed the 25-year old American Jonathan Biss to an exclusive two-year contract.
This is the partnership's first fruit and this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with per- formances... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

highly assured performances of these two marvellous chamber works...this warmly recorded performance is most compelling when Schumann explores the extrovert side of his musical personality...While... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In short, this excellently engineered release continues to substantiate Jonathan Biss as a cultivated, stylish, serious-minded and subtly playful Beethoven interpreter with something to say. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Nobody else in my experience has matched the delicate magic which this American pianist brings to the skeletal and exuberant Allegro of Op. 79. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2019 More…

Not only is American pianist Jonathan Biss a highly refined and intelligent musician, but he also understands [Beethoven’s wit] as well as anyone performing today…Beethoven’s personal life may... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here's another wonderful disc of Beethoven sonatas. We are living in an age where the finest performances, as here, are as impressive as anything we have from the past...[Biss] will surely take... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It is difficult to imagine faultfinders coming up with very much. Biss is neither idiosyncratic nor dogmatic. His tempos and his way into them, via phrase or motive, are his own but never willfully... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…