Gramophone Magazine
April 2021
Editor's Choice

Presto Editor's Choice
March 2021

Danny Driver (piano)

Ligeti: Études for piano, book 1 (études 1-6)
Ligeti: Études for piano, book 2 (études 7-14)
Ligeti: Études for piano, book 3 (études 15-18)

Ligetis vertiginous studies are breathtaking: extraordinary explorations of the modern piano which test the instrument (and its player) to the limit.

"With their exhilarating brilliance and mesmerising beauty, these pieces have captured the imagination of players and audiences alike...These works are here to stay, in the distinguished line of études stretching back via Debussy to Chopin. They require even more virtuosity, sometimes of a brain-teasing sort, and Danny Driver supplies it all, beginning with rock-solid attack in the polyrhythms of ‘Désordre’." - BBC Music Magazine, April 2021.