CD, Scarlatti, D (composer)

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…

This album, intelligently curated by Julian Perkins, is a happy celebration of that gift [Mark Ransom's bequest to the museum] and of the enlarged museum’s reopening in 2023. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 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... — International Piano, September/October 2020 More…

This colossal account of Liszt’s great, arching tone-poem for piano...has never really been surpassed for technical authority. — Sunday Times, 3rd January 2010 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…

This is an essential set for lovers of piano playing. The vast majority of the transfers are superior to anything that has been issued previously, there are a number of recordings appearing... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…