Download, Granados (composer)

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…

[The final work] is the standout performance on the disc, in which Bartlett shows his true pianistic colours with a vicious, visceral reading of the second of Prokofiev’s three ‘War Sonatas’…His... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 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 CD represents something of a triumph not for one young artist but for two. ENO's new music director, Edward Gardner, conducts the accompaniments, with the Academy of St Martin's on fine... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 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…

This well-rounded set argues for a more prominent position among 20th-century pianists than Tagliaferro has generally been accorded in the anglophone literature. It also affords the pleasure... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020 More…

Leonidas Kavakos's Kreisler is authentic in the best meaning of that term, namely a keen approximation both of the music's spirit and of the composer's inimitable playing style. Few Kreisler... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…