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International Piano – September 2008

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“Owen’s ability to keep the pressure on, while at the same time commanding sufficient variety and sublety of touch to allow the nostalgic snatches of melody to escape unchained, deserves immense respect.” Read full review

Fanfare USA, August 2008

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“Exemplary. Classic. Spellbinding. And enthusiastically recommended.” Read full review

Classic FM, August 2008

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“The nocturnes in particular require the most exquisitely subtle inflections [...], something that Charles Owen achieves to mesmerising affect. He plays [...] as though held spellbound by their elusive intimacy” Read full review

MusicWeb International

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“Owen is an intelligent and insightful player with a technique to allow him to essay even the most difficult of music and present it clearly to us; there are insufficient superlatives to praise him.”

Seen and Heard International, April 2008

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Recording of the Month, MusicWeb International, 2005

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“A magical album. Charles Owen empathises closely with Poulenc’s elusive idiom catching its delicacy and insouciance brilliantly. An album to cherish and one that will undoubtedly figure highly in my recital discs of 2005.” Ian Lace

The Glasgow Herald

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“Charles Owen is out of the best school of British pianism – bright, sensitive, unaffected and with playing informed by brainwork.”

Bryce Morrison, Critics Choice, Gramophone, December 2004

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“Charles Owen’s Poulenc piano recital a world apart from Rachmaninov in its teasing elegance and Gallic sophistication, but one presented with rare affection and joie de vivre.”

The Irish Times, 2004

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“A spectacular performance of unswerving commitment”

International Record Review, June 2004

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“An excellent recital of piano works…Owen veers easily between the light hearted and serious offering an abundance of colour on the way”