Browse: Instrumental, Piano Solos, Waltzes, Liszt (composer)

APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of a... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…

Both [the Thalberg and Liszt paraphrases] are delivered with Batsashvili’s trademark expressiveness and finely calibrated control, and in the Liszt she finds a way to let her sound unfurl like... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

Exceptional transfers of justly famous performances Rachmaninov brings this music vividly to life with a unique blend of rubato, unsentimentality, solidity of line and virtuosity. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Doyen’s Chopin, luminous but never underweight, is extremely enjoyable, and his less portentous approach to Liszt also serves as a corrective to the overly earnest recordings and performances... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

The Mendelssohn Variations come over as truly 'sérieuses', on a par with anything by his friend Schumann, thanks to Hough's vivid characterisation and dramatic flair. And if the 'Arietta' of... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ney and her husband, the conductor Willen van Hoogstraten, display great chamber-like rapport in Mozart’s K450, notwithstanding stylistically antediluvian phrase-tapering and swoopy portamentos.... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…