Browse: Grieg (composer), Piano Sonatas

The sound quality throughout is amazingly good...there are several valuable additions to this great pianist’s discography. Not least among them is a superb live performance of the Emperor Concerto,... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — The Telegraph More…

Unless you’re building a playlist, it’s not often you find music by Hans Zimmer and Thomas Newman snuggled up with Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn. Scheps’s programme works, though, as she takes us... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Primitive recording technology had previously rendered these precious historical documents musically indecipherable, but thanks to the painstaking efforts of producer Tony Harrison they now sound... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... — International Piano, January 2020 More…

'excellence’ doesn’t begin to do him justice. The grace and refinement of his playing seemed preternatural, a kind of perfection to which many pianists aspire but few attain – and none with the... — International Piano, September/October 2020 More…

This new APR set reveals Bourne as a pianist of extraordinary clarity, charm and considerable finesse. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2023 More…

This has been an outstandingly successful series of discs – the quality of the transfers, given some intractable problems, has been generously, often triumphantly high…the series has both expanded... — MusicWeb International, May 2015 More…