Browse: Piano Classics (label)

Certainly this pianist commands the technical wherewithal for going beyond reams of notes in pursuit of the music, along with his affinity for and gigantic commitment to Sorabji’s aesthetic. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

all I can say is that in each of the 27 studies Chochieva comes as close as anyone to how I hear the ideal performance in my head...No details are overlooked yet without drawing undue attention... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2015 More…

It takes a certain kind of temperament and a superior finger technique to take [Alkan] on. Those who cut the mustard are few and far between. Mark Viner is such a one and with this, the third... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2020 More…

Gugnin’s new disc is nothing short of disarming. This is some of the finest Liszt-playing one is likely to encounter these days, rich with affective contrasts, pliant and organic rubato, an exquisitely... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

His Steinway D has almost fearsome clarity, and there are informative annotations by Alastair Chisholm. Enthusiastically recommended, in the hope that van Dieren’s six string quartets might now... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2022 More…

Fine sound and knowledgeable notes by Viner supplement the excellent playing. In sum, a splendid release. — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

One the most intelligently programmed and distinctively played Scarlatti collections to cross my reviewer’s desk in years. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

Technically Viner is amazingly accurate, yet nothing sounds glib; he never makes a single ugly sound and his pedalling is so surely judged that…each and every note can be heard…the playing makes... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…