Browse: Nick van Bloss (piano)

This recording of the Goldbergs is individual, interesting, never routine...He repeats the first half of each variation, and less than half of the second halves, which adds a pleasing spontaneity... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Van Bloss is particularly impressive in creating contrast and character between the 12 etudes that make up Schumann’s final version [of the Etudes Symphoniques] — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Nick van Bloss can claim the remarkable achievement of creating a thoroughly distinctive sound. No one else matches the crystalline clarity of his fingering, his ability to find motifs and figures... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

He is a natural musician, and there are moments in his performance of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, particularly in the more intimate numbers, where his gift for bringing out the variegated... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 2 out of 5 stars More…

His tone, while more varied by degrees than in kind, is beautifully moderated, unmarred by the stridency that Chopin abhorred. His phrasing is admirably clear...but the Achilles' heel here is... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…