Peter Seaborne Steps

Michael Bell’s thoughtful brand of virtuosity is more pleasingly conveyed by the recorded sound; the disc also finds room for five of Granados’s Danzas españolas, rendered with a telling sensuous... — Gramophone MagazineMore…

The fifth volume, Sixteen Scenes Before a Crucifixion (2014), is less a collection than a linear meditation on the Passiontide canvases by Caravaggio, as translated into music Seabourne has... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2017More…

The first and last [volumes of the Steps series] confirm his music’s expressive range; not least an anthological first volume (2006) that juxtaposes evocative studies, lengthy ruminations and... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2017More…

these confirm no mean artistry within the solo piano domain...Giovanni Santini is equal to the music's formidable demands. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013More…

the artistry of Fabio Menchetti is its own justification, even if the sound could have done with a little more ambience. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014More…