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Aimi Kobayashi, who rose to prominence as a prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, has been praised by Gramophone as a pianist who can “rivet the attention through fine-drawn line and hushed dynamics as much as through vivid gesture and brute force”.

Is there a better trio than the Florestan playing today? All three members are consummate artists, outstanding instrumentalists, and ensemble players to the manner born, but it’s the playing of pianist Susan Tomes that carries these performances to their greatest heights. Since the ensemble is perfectly judged by all concerned, it may seem unjust to single out the playing of one member for special comment, but such is the extreme sophistication, the extraordinary subtlety and the expressive range of this artist that I can see no alternative. The tonal control, the exquisite shaping of phrases, the rhythmical suppleness and structural backbone are of an order seldom encountered in the playing even of many famous soloists. But what renders her playing here still more remarkable is the exemplary precision with which it’s matched to the different sonorities and qualities of attack, so-called, of the string players. And what players they are. For all of the above this is not a pianist-dominated performance, except insofar as Schubert wrote the piece that way.

Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor, Dante Sonata - Jorge Bolet (2015) {Decca 478 8910}
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Here is another recording of Liszt s Sonata displaying absolute mastery, complete insight. With Bolet one is aware of Liszt the transcendental virtuoso who discovered whole new areas of expression within the piano. -Gramophone.

When Burak Çebi put together the repertoire for his album "Bright Spots", his first intention was not to introduce the public to as many different composers from Turkey as possible. Instead, he was guided solely by his personal taste in the selection of pieces and chose works that he most wanted to record. Although he would describe himself and his "artistic existence" as European in many respects, his view of the music of his home country is by no means marked by Orientalism. Rather, it is a search for his roots, which are also always connected to the future. After working intensively on the conception of this album, Burak Çebi discovered more and more his own way of composing, ultimately telling his story as a person and as an artist.

"thoughtfully constructed programme …keyboard poetry above all else … unfailingly beautiful sound" - Classic FM Magazine