Browse: Debussy - Suite Bergamasque

Not only are there plenty of lively dances on here to counter the cliché of the ‘wispy’ Debussy, but the contrasts between tracks and the clarity at any dynamic level – and of course Osborne... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

His playing is riveting as ever...what comes across strongly here is how he makes each of these little pieces into a complete canvas: every adjustment of speed or volume finely weighted to keep... — The Guardian, 30th November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gieseking was indeed a ‘sorcerer’. Hear him in ‘Voiles’, ‘Les sons et les parfums’ or ‘Des pas sur la neige’ and you sense how everything is accomplished by tonal finesse rather than heavy underlining... — International Piano, October 2022 More…

Darkness and light, poems and stories. Pianist Inon Barnatan is fascinated by these aspects of this exceptionally effective programme...Barnatan's sustaining of the disrupted stillness in Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is one of the better offerings for Debussy's 150th anniversary...This generously filled disc finds Hewitt utterly persuasive in the three suites at its heart...Hyperion caputres the sound... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Martin Jones making lovely sounds in 'Cloches a travers les feuilles', just as required. He's an enormously cultivated pianist, very grand in the bigger works; but sounding intimate or whimsical,... — CD Review More…