Browse: Bavouzet Beethoven Piano Sonatas (series)

As Bavouzet uses very little pedal, his characteristic sound is clean and dry, and when he gives us histrionics they are Beethoven’s own; there’s nothing vain or pretentiously ‘original’ in these... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

he plays a rich-sounding modern instrument, and Chandos supplies its usual feather-bed acoustic. Yet whenever there's a chance to be abrasive, Bavouzet seizes it, and he relishes the opportunities... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet's performances are distinguished and virtuosic, but he does overemphasise the storminess of some passages, the results sounding perilously close to self-parody...But Bavouzet is quite... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…