Browse: Montero, G (composer)

Hold onto your hats! There is rarely a lack of energy where Gabriela Montero is concerned and this disc featuring her own Piano Concerto is no exception…The overall impression is of an affirmatory,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a ferocious young talent — BBC Music Magazine More…

No matter how jaw-dropping her miraculously clean-fingered negotiation of such as Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, it's what happens between the notes, the way she grippingly characterises everything... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2005 More…

[Montero’s] playing is free-spirited, fire-centred and uninhibitedly expressive, with a sense of rhetoric and flexibility that suggests the Romantic era itself: you can almost see the young Clara... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Montero has a phenomenal as an improviser...And what these amount to is a charming palimpsest from the Latin American classical tradition. And while Ginastera's Sonata - delivered here with brio... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Ex Patria is] an elegiac fantasia for piano and orchestra, very Russian in style…it hangs organically together, and has no need to be read as programme music…the best part of this CD consists... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…