Browse: Stewart Goodyear (piano)

Pellucid, fluent accounts of all five works from the classy Canadian pianist...Gaspard is a particular delight (Ondine shimmers and ripples, Le gibet is properly uncanny, and the notorious technical... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2017 More…

Segev is a secure advocate for the widest range of musical idioms..Finely recorded and with copious notes, this labour of love has an ambition matched by its achievement: one in which Segev’s... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2023 More…

If there are plenty of recordings of both symphonies to choose from, these performances are a worthwhile listen. Shelley fires up playing of vigorous energy and spirit which, if not always ideally... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Earliest is the 1893 Piano Quintet which reveals from the start an exceptional melodic gift. Through four colourful movements, the Catalyst Quartet and pianist Stewart Goodyear capture the combination... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Goodyear] throws himself into the prolix keyboard-writing, aided and abetted by the Buffalo Philharmonic with their conductor JoAnn Falletta, than whom there is no one better in relaying the... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Shelley and the orchestra respond to this emotional world with suitably impassioned accounts, using tempos that are energetic yet spacious enough to steep us in, for instance, the full effect... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition forms the bulk of Stewart Goodyear’s latest recital recording. The Canadian pianist takes the main promenade theme at a brisk pace – by its fifth appearance... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars Recording) More…