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“With Goodyear’s powerful grip over the keyboard and plangent attack — he is a Beethoven specialist after all — the pianist captures the sheer horror of Hayden’s lines with fine-tuned precision”

“Goodyear’s crisply articulated performance is so full of life, so rhythmically buoyant, and the starker colours better allow one to appreciate how individual the piano writing is.”

“Goodyear takes judicious tempi much closer to Mussorgsky’s originally intended ones, bringing out the clarity of the work and the humor inherent in many of the sardonically descriptive episodes”

“The program, well-recorded by the Bright Shiny Things label, brings together diverse music in a new and absorbing way”

“Goodyear’s playing here has both virtuosic flash and deeply considered feeling”

“Goodyear’s playing here has both virtuosic flash and deeply considered feeling”

“These are first-class interpretations by a world-class performer”

“To be sure, the keyboard version of Pictures is a showpiece; here, it comes across as a particularly grand and majestic one.”

“An outstanding pianist savoring a cornucopia of solo piano goodies…Brilliant!”

“Stewart Goodyear is simply incapable of repeating himself. He is the complete musician: an imaginative composer who delivers an authentic, original sound unlike any other composer’s, and a technically and interpretatively larger than life artist.”