CD, 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…

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

The first movement of his Appassionata is gracefully conceived, and he brings a properly Beethovenian authority to the variations of the slow movement, before seguing gracefully into whirlwind... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

In this gorgeous snapshot of Spanish musical history, harpist De Maistre makes works for guitar and harpsichord his own – joined by castanet master Lucero Tena. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars 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…