Liszt - Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 5)

This is immensely distinguished Liszt-playing...Freire seems utterly at one with the music, not only in terms of its innate poetry but also its astonishing diversity of texture and touch...Freire... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

No one could imitate anything Horowitz did, and that’s particularly true of his Scarlatti, which combines lightness of action and the subtlest of pedalling...Schumann’s Arabeske, new to his... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Cooper’s keyboard mastery is as searching as the music itself…her way of balancing chords mesmerises the ear – both in the consonant close of Sposalizio (whose poised opening is exquisitely... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bolet's distilled, rarefied art of spinning out a translucent lyrical line, his broad tempos, deep-toned basses and unforced sonorousness were all the products of his musicianly maturity — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 More…

His Liszt is remarkable. The F minor Transcendental Study's brand of miraculous virtuosity, at once tumultuous and limpid, is marvellously captured. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…