Press Reviews

Fanfare (Scott Noriega- March 2016)

Horvath performs the works…the way that Glass would like to himself. And there is hardly a higher compliment that one could pay to a performing musician.

American Record Guide ( Rob Haskins - January 2016)

 with advocates as compelling as Nicolas Horvath, I suspect [The Etudes] will become extremely popular works with concert pianists.

Examiner.com (Stephen Smoliar – September 2015) 

Horvath should be recognized as a pianist capable of bringing rich expressiveness to Glass’ music without compromising “the letter of the text,” so to speak. If the etudes were initially conceived primarily for technical proficiency, Horvath has found a way to endow them with a far more subjective approach that frequently borders on the visceral.

 Horvath can perform these etudes in a way that brings intense expression to their abstract qualities without ever overplaying his hand, so to speak, that one can, indeed, listen to these twenty etudes in a single sitting as a “virtual concert experience.”

Glass Notes - Richard Guérin 

Nicolas Horvarth's hyperactive version of the etudes

L'Education Musicale (Patrice Imbaud - Mars 2016)  

"To discover absolutely!"

Aperfectmonster.com (John Dyer Baizley - 24 june 2016) Album du jour 

Culture Catch (Steve Holtje - January 2016) Best Classical Albums 2015

Not to slight Glass’s own considerable talents, but Horvath has a richer tone, and the Etudes really blossom under his fingers

La Folia (Grant Chu Covell- Avril 2017) 

Horvath discovers a universe of expressive possibilities, instructs how the Études can be a vehicle for Romanticism.

En piste ! (Emilie Munera - 28 Avril 2015)  

an edition which will become a reference.

Sequenza21.com ( Paul Muller - November 2015)

Nicolas Horvath, with precise playing and imaginative interpretation has made Glassworlds 2 an indispensable reference for the serious enthusiast as well as marking an important milestone in the evolution of the music of Philip Glass.

Piano Bleu

[This album] expands the "repertoire"

Pizzicato (Remy Franck- November 2015)

As on the first CD, the Monegasque pianist Nicolas Horvath invests himself completely in this music and does not owe anything technically or expressively to the 20 pieces

Silent City ( Loïc.P - October 2015)

Nicolas Horvath does not distort the studies, he gives them a new dimension. a powerful album,

Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review (Grego Applegate Edwards - November 2015)

The brilliant Lisztian-Rachmaninovian virtuosity that Nicolas Horvath brings to the cycle generates a good deal of bravado and even excitement. 

In Horvath's hands these [études] are convincing torrents of pianistic energy! Bravo! 

Music is Good (Stephen J. Nereffid) - Favourite classical albums of 2015 #12

[Horvath] adds a dash of romanticism to [Glass] familiar style.

Michel Bosc 

You have to be called Nicolas Horvath to carry out such passionate and ambitious undertakings! A must-have CD for Glass lovers

Klassiek-centraal (Michel Dutrieue - 17/08/16 ) Rating : ★★★★

Highly recommended. The perfect balance between virtuosity and poetry

David's Review Corner (David Denton - September 2015)

The French-born pianist, Nicolas Horvath, has these works in his repertoire, and it shows with the natural flow of his performances, his range of colours being the key to the disc’s success.

Inactuelles (Dionys)  

In the rushing river of life's metamorphoses

I didn't expect the magnitude of the revelation. It's music that carries you away, that touches, without worrying about labels: minimalist, romantic, classical, it springs up with a naivety and a strength that its interpreter. Nicolas Horvath carries this music with all his passion, with all his love for the composer, and you can hear it. He is what he plays, passionately, entirely.

A second decisive disc to change the image of Philip Glass

Primephonic (Melanie Garrett- 09 February 2016) Rating : ★★★★★

an essential addition to both piano music, and the recordings of Philip Glass’s compositions.