If CPE’s music represents a synthesis of old and new, the piano exhibits similar qualities with a palette that can resemble a fortepiano squaring up to a clavichord with attitude…Lubimov owns every exquisitely calibrated nuance…A bouquet, too to the engineers who capture everything with such vibrant immediacy. Nothing short of a revelation.

Employing an arsenal of attack and release strategies, Lubimov draws from it a veritable rainbow of colours plus an abundant variety of sounds perfectly suited to the extravagant expressivity of Bach...I can think of no other pianist capable of breathing such light and life, such shape and substance into this bold, wildly imaginative music. Lubimov gives us Carl Philoipp Emanuel Bach in the white heat of inspiration…Please don’t miss this.

Lubimov provides a rare opportunity to hear a tangent piano...It makes an intrinsically appealing sound, a cross between fortepiano, harp and cimbalom, and offers surprising flexibility in dynamics and tone colours...These presciently expressive keyboard works...by JS Bach’s most gifted son suit it well, and Lubimov’s playing will delight.

[Bach's] vision has found a new voice in the wonderfully acerbic, crisp, perky textures of the tangent piano, mingling harpsichord, fortepiano and harp-like sounds. The veteran Alexei Lubimov draws the maximum in sprightly vitality from his replica of a 1794 instrument.