Browse: Simon Callaghan (piano)

In every case, Simon Callaghan radiates delight in reviving these neglected items, and his pungent and precise fingering is matched by the spirited attack of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

No praise can be high enough for either Callaghan’s dazzling pianism, nor his adventurous programming. While the recording is as good as ever from this eminent label, this is a disc to which... — British Music Society Journal, March 2024 More…

Here we have coruscating performances by Simon Callaghan and the Sinfonieorchester St Gallen of three of Reinecke’s four piano concertos. Written respectively in 1860, 1872 and 1900, they reflect... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a fresh, consistently stimulating account of Ravel’s sonata, all the more effective for its avoidance of special pleading..[in the finale] Tomita and Callaghan hit a groove facilitating... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Wallfisch and Simon Callaghan are in full sympathy both with one another and with the music, lavishing fullness of tone and subtlety of nuance on both sonatas, while Łukasz Borowicz and the Janá∂ek... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Rachmaninov meets Ivor Novello – these suave, sophisticated works are beautifully orchestrated, and lavished here with playing of unstinting poise. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dyson usually packs in plenty of substance, with tricky rhythms, surprising harmonies that belie his conservative image and considerable authentic charm...Callaghan, a devoted specialist in forgotten... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…