Browse: Liadov - A Musical Snuffbox, Op. 32

Here is a virtuoso from the Golden Age who deserves a place alongside the Rosenthals and Hofmanns...I love the pacing, the tempo relationships, his effortless fluency and (easily discernible)... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

It would take a stone-hearted listener not to be charmed by these arrangements for mandolin or domra (a Russian member of the lute family) and piano. The works are largely familiar, the playing... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

De Maistre is a kind of Hamelin of the harp: the agility, the ease with which the most astonishing technical challenges are surmounted, the conversational phrasing and evenness of rapid passagework... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

one of the indisputably great pianists in history, albeit captured when he was judged to be past his prime (he was 65 when he made his first disc recording) - though few living pianists at the... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 More…

This wide-ranging conspectus of Russian piano miniatures spans Ashkenazy's career from 1963 to 2004. Fine playing, occasionally short on charm. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…