Piano Classics

Maltempo’s eloquent phrasing and expansive array of colours are of a very high order indeed, and they come to the rescue of the other two sonatas on the disc, both of which leap off the page... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018More…

Occasionally the complex polyphony is just too clever for its own musical good but the best of these studies on studies are extraordinarily inventive and ingenious. Only top flight virtuosos... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017More…

Don’t be fooled by his forthright approach to the opening “Preludio-Toccata”: in the “Notturno” he could not be more fluid as he lays out the quasi-improvisational theme above suspended harmonies... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020More…

Maltempo more than holds his own. As we’d expect from his keen-edged Alkan (Toccata Classics, Piano Classics), he has the dexterity to clarify Dukas’s thick textures. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023More…