SACD, Bach, C P E (composer)

Spányi is, as ever, a fastidious player, keenly attuned to Bach's particular brand of Empfindsamkeit, especially in the quasi-improvisatory slow movements. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

The modern Steinway grand seems a bit of a blunt instrument to convey the full range of Bach's individuality, but Lazic's fastidiously articulated fingerwork and his feel for CPE's cultivated... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In the wrong hands CPE Bach's H277 Fantasy can easily disintegrate into series of rhetorical gestures, but Magen takes us into a rarefied of magical colours and dynamic shadings that creates... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…