Browse: Martin Roscoe Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas (series)

I haven't heard playing from any recent pianist that surpasses Roscoe's...It is characteristic of Roscoe, as of all the supreme executants, that listening itself becomes a strenuous process...Roscoe... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Roscoe doesn't miss a trick. If I have a criticism, and I don't think I have, it's that he leaves nothing hidden in these marvellous works — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Roscoe’s ebullient launch [of the Hammerklavier] hovers around [metronome mark] 120, much varied later in the ebb and flow of Beethoven’s material, but never losing an undercurrent of boundless... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Tempest Sonata starts well, with its Allegro smooth, rapid, and menacing, but the Adagio, which should be mysterious and even oracular, emerges in routine conversational mode…But with the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Roscoe favours] clear textures, astute voice-leading, balance and symmetry, discreet use of the pedal and a kind of Classical reserve that contrast with more combative, confrontational interpretations…listeners... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

[these accounts] go out of their way to emphasis the freshness and cheekiness of Beethoven, for all his indebtedness to Haydn. No listener will be disappointed, but they may well feel that in... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Roscoe sails through [Op. 101] technical challenges with nonchalant ease. Its musical ones too. Pellucid pianism casts the opening movement as a lambent prelude to the crisply-etched March that... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Roscoe's way with [Op. 10] is nigh-on perfect, lightly pedalled, full of a youthful vitality and impudence as though the ink was still wet on the paper. But I urge you to hear the C minor Sonata's... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 More…

Martin Roscoe gives a fine account of the Waldstein, capturing all the music's flamboyance. and meticulously conveying Beethoven's controversial pedal-markings in the concluding rondo. His affectionate... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 3 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…