... a command of the large-scale integration of structure which was indeed profound,... a comprehensive technique that, frankly, has everything: warmth and depth of tone, clarity and a superb colour range, precision and dynamics from the fullest sound to the most finely-balanced nuance...a reading of compelling artistry.

...cultivated and masterful pianism

What made Alberto Reyes's piano recital ...so exciting was the Uruguayan pianist's way of capturing each work's essence - the quality of its nervous energy, its musical fingerprint - and his ability to transform it into something like a living organism

The final pages of the Fourth Ballade are as magisterial and lucid as you could wish, and in the central Elysium of the Second Sonata's Funeral march Reyes relaxes into a moving and personal eloquence.

deeply personal, imaginative, straight from the heart, and reminiscent of the grand manner of a bygone era.

Here's a fascinating and extremely beautiful Chopin recital from a pianist of whom we've heard little in the past decades. Uruguayan born Alberto Reyes presents both the big sonatas and some substantial shorter pieces in accounts that are unusual, personal and deeply rewarding.

His ability to breathe new life into these works is his strength. It is hearing the freshness of youth coupled with the experience of life that so impresses here. It also makes him rather difficult to classify for comparison purposes. Sometimes Bolet springs to mind in the combination of freedom with a mastery of multiple voicing, but Reyes occupies, in essence, a space all of his own.

Reyes is obviously up to all the virtuoso demands, but does not flaunt his abilities. Instead he takes the music seriously, maintains a singing line with little effort, and extracts both the essence and the full impact of Liszt's treatment