Piano

Saleem Abboud Ashkar

"Ashkar developed the piano part with great care, insight and technical perfection as well as a fine feeling for the poetic sensitive moments. The finale was..."Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Thomas Adès

Dmitri Alexeev

"This great poet of the piano warmed his brilliantly articulated playing with a ripe, ringing core to each note."Hilary Finch, The Times

Piotr Anderszewski

"The Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings myriad colourings, a poetic sensibility and a prodigious though idiosyncratic technique to his performances."The New York Times

Leif Ove Andsnes

"A pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight."New York Times

Elisso Bolkvadze

"Formidable Talent"The New York Times

Simone Dinnerstein

""arresting freshness and subtlety""TIME

Eldar Djangirov

"This is certainly jazz piano, but it's the kind that belongs in a recital hall… Djangirov gets to the heart of every song..."Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

Barry Douglas

"...Douglas, with a wonderful variety of tone and touch, with going for truth rather than superficial beauty, with a spellbinding inwardness in the adagio con molta..."Financial Times by Harry Eyres

Julius Drake

"Drake made the piano part sound positively incandescent. For my money, this inspired accompanist is now the best in the business."Diary of One Who Vanished, Lincoln Centre. New York Magazine.

Kirill Gerstein

"Kirill Gerstein delivered the daunting piano part with silky grace"Michael Church, The Independent

David Greilsammer

Musical Director, Geneva Chamber Orchestra

"...Mr Greilsammer is a standout musician who has it in him to challenge, inform and delight audiences."New York Times

Hélène Grimaud

Ran Jia

Jeffrey Kahane

"Kahane invested this epic work with deep musical understanding and a razor-sharp sense of drama, bringing incisive definition to its constant shifts in sound and mood,..."Denver Post

Freddy Kempf

"Kempf has the maturity and musicality with which to harness his gifts to artistic ends. He has the fearless exuberance of youth. He is prepared to..."The Telegraph

Evgeny Kissin

"Without question he is a phenomenal pianist, a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician"The New York Times

Elisabeth Leonskaja

"The popularity of mercurial Elisabeth Leonskaja amongst audiences has never been higher, perhaps because she is one of “the last of the great Russian school""Sean Rafferty , Bach Track

Jan Lisiecki

"...perhaps the most 'complete' pianist of his age..."BBC Music Magazine

Valentina Lisitsa

"Lisista's playing sounds like a clear stream flowing over rounded pebbles, light, gleaming, glinting but never spiked and cutting."The Birkshire Review

Gabriela Montero

"La Divina del Piano"

Natasha Paremski

"On her debut recital recording, 24-year-old pianist Natasha Paremski, the 2010 Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, proves she is an artist to watch —..."Ronni Reich, New Jersey On-Line

Murray Perahia

Navah Perlman

Andrei Pisarev

Ivo Pogorelich

"The Chopin (...) was pure poetry, unsentimental and glorious. Moments of tragic weight in the outer movements were balanced by a sinister, mercurial scherzo and a rapt..."Tim Ashley, The Guardian

Alfredo Rodríguez

"Rodríguez proved himself one of the most original keyboard talents to come out of Cuba since Chucho Valdes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. So striking was the..."Boston Herald

Alexander Romanovsky

"Alexander Romanovsky is special, not just an extraordinary technician with a flair for color and fantasy, but also a sensitive musician and lucid interpreter"The New York Times

Conrad Tao

"At 17, the musician Conrad Tao is already impressively accomplished.That Mr. Tao, who gave his first recital at 4, is hugely gifted was evident from the outset...."New York Times

The 5 Browns

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Simon Trpčeski

"Electrifying virtuosity, but no whiff of show-off. The most delicate feelings, yet nothing precious or lacy. Head plus heart, lots of heart."Geoff Brown, The London Times

Nobuyuki Tsujii

Joint Gold Medalist of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

"lt's almost beyond imagining that he has learned scores as formidable as Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Beethoven‘s Hammerklavier Sonata by ear...Through all three..."The Dallas Morning News

Orion Weiss

Ingolf Wunder

"Wunder produced the most exquisitely poised Chopin sound, characterised by bel canto elegance, and it is hard to imagine a finer account of the Polonaise-Fantasie than..."The Telegraph [2010 Chopin Competition review]

Christian Zacharias