Browse: Concertos, Piano Concertos, Ravel (composer)

You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

By any standards, this is the A Team, and they do not disappoint. Here is Ravel in all his passion and technical wizardry...[Tiberghien] finds any number of colours amid his faultless technical... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The outer movements are so deliciously light, like the most perfect soufflé, executed with disarming insouciance by pianist and orchestra alike...You could not wish for a more atmospheric account... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

[Bavouzet] turns in a performance of the Fantaisie that illuminates this uneven yet magical work like no other. As to the Ravel concertos, I have no hesitation in saying these are the greatest... — Classic FM Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Full of colour, both Osborne’s poetry and his exceptional touch are to the fore, the sparkling cascades in the final movement being especially breathtaking…strong performances of a programme... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Zimerman's pianism is self-recommending.
His trills in the first movement of the G major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystalclear, never hectic, always stylish. For... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…