Piano Classics

Lukas Huisman is a fine Takemitsu pianist, paying with admirable clarity. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Two concertos, one written for the left hand alone, that display a late-Romanticism akin to Rachmaninov. Sumptuous stuff, well performed. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Good tunes and elaborate dressing abound here. The young British pianist Mark Viner is superbly adept in this repertoire, especially at subordinating and shaping decorative passagework, although... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Here's an area of the piano's repertory that is not often visited...All six of these American composers were members of the Harvard Musical Association...None of them inhabits the summit of... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

[Gavrylyuk] is a virtuoso in the fullest sense and few pianists have relished Brahms's expressive range as well as his ferocious demands in his Op. 35 more inclusively…he remains among an elite... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

Rutkowski has a splendid technique and the lighter passages can bring a smile to the lips, as with his delightfully crisp ornaments in the second Arabesque. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

if allowed only one item for celebration, it would have to be Rachmaninov's Vocalise, played here in Zoltan Kocsis's elaboration and sounding as emotional and tear-laden as even the most ardent... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…