Instrumental, Piano Solos, Albéniz (composer)

As Yuja Wang fuses the disparate music into a single, coherent arc, she annihilates any fears of randomness. How does she do it? — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…

Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

You can easily imagine the audience’s indulgent end-ofrecital smiles over Das Butterbrot (Litolff possibly, probably not Mozart). — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

Hamelin again achieves the almost physically impossible with seeming ease. Albéniz's multiple layers are finely balanced, and apparently awkward textures come to life in a lucid acoustic with... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Halász avoids cliché, the more familiar repertoire tempered by the lesser known, and contrasts of style and substance. Halász’s playing is deeply expressive, finding a huge variety of tones.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 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…