"warmly resonant ambience... elegant in his delineation of Mozart's expressive second subjects... informative booklet notes empahasise the essentially operatic nature of the writing... wonderfully mellifluous bel canto line ... giving far more expressive character" (BBC Music on earlier titles sonatas discs) "His music is an expression of his uncommonly wide emotional range coupled with one of the sharpest intellects known to man.... first and foremost an operatic composer... In so many of (his) piano works I hear strains of a 'Figaro', a 'Papageno' and others... the writing is always marvellously pianistic and natural...as if (he) understood life and its purpose and his approach to it was one of reverence, joy and optimism." (Martino Tirimo)