Ashley Wass

Not only does this gifted young pianist possess a rock-solid technique and striking keyboard finesse, his penetrating accounts of both these large-scale, single-movement sonatas make you sit... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The Erlkönig Caprice and 'The Last Rose of Summer Variations' (last of the Polyphonic Studies) stretch violin technique to its very limits. Ilya Gringolts surmounts each hurdle with the brilliance... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rysanov has previously demonstrated that there is far more to the instrument than Romantic brooding, but this disc finds him exploring that cliche...and the playing is utterly sublime, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wass's command of the young Liszt's idiom engages both with its poetry and virtuosity: he underscores the contrasts of mood and tempo in 'Lyon', for instance, to articulate the broader design... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wass plays all this music straight and honestly, with a sure instinct for its idioms, without surrendering to the more self-indulgent aspects of Bax's chromaticism. Wass has plenty of power... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ashley Wass plays everything with exemplary command, relishing the music's sonority and engaging disarmingly with the nondescript smaller items. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…