Browse: Instrumental, Piano Solos, Auerbach (composer)

The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

The main attraction is Auerbach’s Sonata, the partnership between viola and piano more equal and richer in potential. Hauntingly beautiful. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pärt's Fratres is more transcendental than celestial but Hope's performance exudes both virtuosity and romanticism, as if drawing inspiration from Paganini and Joachim in equal measure...'Spheres'... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 More…

Her performances of her piano music hold nothing back and testify to a fabulous technique. This is music of emotional, or at least rhetorical, extremes: furious toccatas and frozen stasis, grandiose... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A new ‘set’ of 24 Preludes here, selected via the digital age by combing online music services. From Hindemith pupil Harald Genzmer, the journey weaves its way through the labyrinth of the obscure... — Classical Music, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Best of all is their selection of six of Shostakovich’s piano preludes: these could have been written for bassoon, so perfectly does the instrument lend itself to the quickfire vamping and staccato... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…