Press
’King of the Keyboards’
Cover story – Early Music Today, December 2011 – February 2012
Early Music February 2009
Gramophone Magazine, January 2011
Classic FM Magazine March 2009
Review from The Daily Telegraph, April 2010
Yorkshire Press, February 2011
”the young harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani…gave a wonderfully personal performance of the Goldberg Variations, sound and physicality both reflective of an individual emotional path taken through this most refined of works.”
Gramophone Magazine
‘exceptionally gifted’
‘I hope Esfahani will sometimes allow himself to play a Steinway grand as well as harpsichord and fortepiano: he is a quite exceptionally gifted accompanist as well as soloist.’
- Hilary Finch, The Times
‘stunning’
‘…a stunning concert by Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani of Domenico Scarlatti sonatas, carefully chosen and paired, and played with both a sensitivity and vibrance that will send me running to the box office when I next see his name in a concert programme….’
— Jonathan Wikeley, Early Music Today (UK)
‘virtuosity of a master’
‘…nothing could have prepared me for the brilliance and artistry of Mahan Esfahani, who, despite his young age, played with the musicality and virtuosity of a master. Specializing in early keyboards, Mahan more than breathed life into rarely-played works by Dufay, Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, and Purcell — using recreations of Renaissance and Baroque organs and harpsichords, he breathed fire into them. Not a single phrase lacked purpose or direction the entire evening.’
— Keyboard Magazine (USA)