Austbø; Håkon

Great Grieg Pianism At Bargain Price

Jed Distler

Håkon Austbo’s wonderful and well-engineered Grieg recordings have floated around Brilliant Classics’ catalog for years. They now appear in the label’s new Quintessence series on

Håkon Austbø’s Chopin

Jed Distler

Håkon Austbø’s Chopin is straightforward, true to text, and free from interpretive artifice to the extent that listeners might take issue with the lack of

Janacek: Piano Music/Austbo

Jed Distler

If you want every Janácek piano piece extant, significant or slight, in superb, beautifully engineered interpretations at rock-bottom cost, look no further. Häkon Austbo is

Brahms: Piano works

Jed Distler

Looking for Brahms’ solo piano music in first rate, well-recorded performances at super-budget price? Then consider this boxed set, featuring five pianists. Some of the

Debussy: Piano works Vol 1/Austbø

Jed Distler

On the plus side for this first volume of Simax’s Debussy piano music cycle, pianist Håkon Austbø’s full-bodied sonority and wide dynamic range do full

Schoenberg Transcriptions/Auvidis Montaigne 7/7 C

ClassicsToday

Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances, founded in 1918 to offer weekly new-music concerts to a knowledgeable audience, provides the launching point for this disc.

Austbo/Messiaen/Naxos

David Hurwitz

Hakon Austbo’s ongoing survey of Messiaen’s complete piano music triumphantly vindicates Naxos’ contention that high quality doesn’t have to mean high price. His performances are