Stewart Goodyear

Pellucid, fluent accounts of all five works from the classy Canadian pianist...Gaspard is a particular delight (Ondine shimmers and ripples, Le gibet is properly uncanny, and the notorious technical... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2017 More…

[Callaloo] fuses together classical and calypso. The title references a Caribbean dish that blends spices from various cultures and gives a nod towards Goodyear’s Trinidadian heritage…The highly... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Shelley and the orchestra respond to this emotional world with suitably impassioned accounts, using tempos that are energetic yet spacious enough to steep us in, for instance, the full effect... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition forms the bulk of Stewart Goodyear’s latest recital recording. The Canadian pianist takes the main promenade theme at a brisk pace – by its fifth appearance... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars Recording) More…

If there are plenty of recordings of both symphonies to choose from, these performances are a worthwhile listen. Shelley fires up playing of vigorous energy and spirit which, if not always ideally... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If you're looking for vital, stylishly insightful middle Beethoven sonatas, Consider Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear, as long as you can deal with dry engineering...Goodyear generally responds... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…