Haydn - Variations on 'Gott erhalte Franz, den Kaiser' in G major (after Hob.III/77ii)

Some listeners may regard it as a chance to confront their prejudices against the fortepiano. Those listeners may relax: the instrument which this South African player has chosen is an unusually... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even Bavouzet’s advocacy fails to disguise [the arrangements’] slight awkwardness on the piano…What he does make a great case for are the early sonatas (even those with dubious attributions),... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Donohoe takes each work at face value, delivering straightdown-the-middle interpretations with the utmost directness, high-definition clarity and scrupulous rhythmic accuracy. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2023 More…

Interpretatively, Cooper offers a fascinatingly complementary approach to Andreas Staier in his outstanding late-Haydn box. …Staier… proves on the whole stricter, crisper, more clear-cut in... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Despite, indeed partly because of the imperfections there is an immediacy and intensity here as his 81-year old fingers feel their way from one musical configuration to another that is in a class... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…