Browse: Download, Albéniz (composer)

No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Goerner successfully points out the various landmarks – such as the Spanish jota motif that is woven across all four books – without distracting from the overall free-form shape of the music.... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Hamelin again achieves the almost physically impossible with seeming ease. Albéniz's multiple layers are finely balanced, and apparently awkward textures come to life in a lucid acoustic with... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded during the era of coronavirus lockdowns, when live audiences and full concert halls were a fanciful dream, Barenboim nonetheless creates an intimacy that makes each piece feel special,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... — International Piano, January 2020 More…

Fullana includes the E major Partita, employing gut strings, Baroque bow and authentic ornamentation. In so doing, he finds a compelling middle-way between Romantic and period-instrument rhetoric,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…