Martin Roscoe Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Instrumental Choice
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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[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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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 — More…
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[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... — More…
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