Browse: Bach, J S - French Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV815

All credit to Esfahani for this carefully prepared recording...there is much to enjoy in playing that displays poise and expressive nuance as well as virtuosity. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

It’s the sort of music-making that, its intellectual grasp notwithstanding, clearly emanates from the heart. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…

Even the most out-and-out purists who blench at the thought of Bach on the piano will find it hard not to be won over by Angela Hewitt's artistry. Eschewing all hieratic pretentiousness on the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

a charismatic artist, a distinctive voice in a field crowded with technically immaculate but intermittently inspired players…these recordings offer a sustained argument that, among many legitimate... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 More…

There is much to enjoy here: articulation is scrupulously clean and the contrapuntal textures are never muddied, despite the piano’s natural resonance — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Her affinity with [Bach's] idiom is everywhere palpable in this recording...Eschewing flashy showmanship, she focuses instead on drawing a limpid cantabile sound, and on making the rhythms dance...Mei's... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…