Grieg - Lyric Pieces Op. 12: No. 5 - Folk Tune

In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... — International Piano, January 2020 More…

[Haugtassa] Booth and Glynn find the right tone for each song...as an overall program, intelligently put together and attractively performed, this new disc will bring pleasure to Grieg lovers... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Janina Fialkowska is one of today's most dependable pianists - bold, poetic, virtuosic and very much more…[the] cornucopian approach poses special challenges to the imagination, and technique,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Freire can make something as simple as an arpeggio sound ravishing and the sense of fantasy is everywhere apparent…’Shepherd Boy’ (Op. 54 No. 1 is a highlight, conjuring a palpable sense of... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…