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Here is a pianist who uses a superlative technique to project performances that glow with an inner light of understanding... Negishi’s performance is warm and compelling – she is a born storyteller…Negishi’s... — International Piano, September 2022 More…

The highlight of this impressive recital is the unusually sombre reading of Schubert's First Impromptu, but the Bach Partitas is sturdy, and the Waldstein charismatic. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

She has a prodigious technique, so the bravura demands of Brahms’s Paganini Variations and Liszt’s Tarantella hold no terrors for her, and she makes Liszt’s intricate filigree writing a thing... — Sunday Times, 13th December 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s something wonderfully unshowy about Medvedev’s performance here, despite the glittering quality of such works as Tchaikovsky’s Grand Sonata in Gmajor. Other pianists might be tempted... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

You can’t fault the performances. Noakes plays with great agility and exquisite tone, whether spinning out the long phrases of the Trio’s Andantino or negotiating the flickering complexities... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…