Martin Roscoe, pianist
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Welcome to the website of acclaimed British pianist Martin Roscoe, where you can catch up on Martin's news, concerts, recordings and more.
New recording for Hyperion
The first disc of my Dohnányi series for Hyperion was recorded in Feb 2011 back to back with my 7th Beethoven Sonata disc for Deux-Elles on the splendid new piano I helped to select for Potton Hall in Suffolk.
Being jet-lagged (having flown in from NZ only 5 days earlier) made these sessions unusually hard work and I was a bit concerned that this might be reflected in the end result. Geoffrey Norris and Andrew MacGregor's comments on CD Review seemed to suggest they didn't notice any lack of energy…
“…My favourite of the 5 discs I'm reviewing today… Roscoe plays with tremendous passion and wonderful characterisation… Playing which gives the sort of advocacy Dohnányi deserves…”
Geoffrey Norris and Andrew MacGregor, BBC Radio 3
“…There's something larger than life about the keyboard writing here, and it demands exactly the kind of no-hold-barred approach that Roscoe adopts; he dispatches the fistfuls of notes with wonderful precision and just the right degree of swagger.”
Andrew Clements, The Guardian, January 2012
Latest solo recording
The second instalment in Martin Roscoe's recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas for the Deux-Elles label is out now. The first instalment was released in May 2010 to fantastic reviews in International Piano and Gramophone magazine.
“…the pacing, the expressive energy, the understanding of form, the tension, absolutely wonderful. For me, this is the best recording of the Waldstein Sonata since Solomon's in the 1950s… perfect musical judgement and a formidable technique there from Martin Roscoe…”
Rob Cowan, BBC Radio 3
