Piano Classics

His Petrushka is novel and exploratory, leaving you with a sharp sense of the original ballet, its alternating exultance and despair, rather than mere virtuoso glory. Nothing is played for obvious... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…

Less contained than Pollini and more attuned to Horowitz's flamboyance, his performance captures all of Schumann's teeming imagination...Above all, Maltempo's well-recorded performances have... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

Saskia Giorgini’s idiomatic virtuosity is completely at one with Enescu’s sound world...In short, Giorgini has truly internalised this elusive, oddly gripping music, whetting the appetite for... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Proshayev’s take on the Sixth Partita is lyrical and flowing…the Rameau is similar [Schnittke] Shchetynsky’s arrangement avoids weighing down the textures with heavy four-hand sonorities, and... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

Her playing has limpid clarity, and rhythmic firmness and exactitude; her articulation is clean and nimble, and her voicing of different lines is splendidly balanced. Her rapid playing is vigorous,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022 More…

Sun Hee You is a fleet-fingered and energetic exponent. On her Yamaha instrument she may not find quite the range of colour or mood as Steven Osborne. But the First Sonata is the only direct... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…