In a world where transient glitter is often mistaken for pianistic excellence, Anderson offered that rare commodity: an ability to speak through music without hint of artifice.
Anderson has a wonderful gift for achieving great warmth in the whole piano-sound whilst keeping every strand clear and luminous. He boasts not only the full-scale grasp of the music, but the immaculate pedal technique needed to realize it. He is a musician and pianist eminently worth hearing.
Here is a supreme musical talent with clear ideas on interpretation…. A splendid disc.
Anderson has a wonderful gift for achieving great warmth in the whole piano-sound whilst keeping every strand clear and luminous. He boasts not only the full-scale grasp of the music, but the immaculate pedal technique needed to realize it. He is a musician eminently worth hearing.
Once again Anderson delivers the goods in a rip-roaring way and he has been excellently recorded.
Anderson plays beautifully, though—what tone, what technique, what a touch!
Röntgen’s delightful music continues to be recorded... They are most delightfully played by Mark Anderson in the sympathetic acoustic of Wyastone Leys. I’m looking forward to this series developing but then I am very partial to Röntgen’s unassuming generosity of spirit.
Thus, the third volume manages to explore early and mid-period Röntgen, adding a work that must be all-but-unknown except to Anderson and scholars of the composer