Vocal, Busoni (composer)

Sensational. Unique. In a realm all their own. Now words are really apt here...The most obvious feature of the playing here is the artist's unfettered imagination - a currently unfashionable... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gareth Brynmor John tunes in to Schoenberg's pungent and resinous arrangement, sweet with avian flute and violin, bittersweet in the dark, mesmeric breathing of the harmonium…[Berceuse elegaique]... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 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…

…everything here is a delight. Mompou's miniatures grow under Andsnes's skilful hands, Scriabin exudes his perfume, and Smetana evokes the full-dress glory of Central European domestic pianism.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It’s certainly excellent to have them in such fluent, classy performances…All in all, a highly collectable disc, but not quite the epoch-making one the pianist’s stellar image has led us to... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…