Browse: Leon McCawley (piano)

All told, this scintillatingly varied recital combines sensuous virtuosity, compelling charm and musical probity. Highly recommended. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

…the works recorded here all display a determined individuality and sureness of purpose that is rare in music of the 20th century. …Leon McCawley proves to be a totally sympathetic and insightful... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

McCawley’s choices of tempos are unfailingly convincing, his articulation is lucid, crisp and full of contained vitality...This is playing that makes maximal musical sense of Haydn’s notation... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

At times we miss the focused punch of one piano's combat with the orchestra…yet 20 fingers certainly bring a heightened percussive charge in the final section's 'fuga chromatica'. Either way... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…