“When Perianes finally did enter with stern assertive flourish, the sound he drew from the piano had a wonderfully firm resonance, perfectly rounded, nothing bludgeoning, and as the movement developed he made the piano sing and glitter with alert, polished brilliance. In the long sustained piano melody at the start of the second movement he found a more personal reflective tone as though pursuing a private thought though with the same keenness of mind.”

“Javier Perianes can handle all Ravel’s digit-twisting difficulties with apparent ease, but he never allows the finger-work to sound flashy. There’s always a feeling of intimacy and delicacy, as if we’re being given a glimpse of a child’s picture book … The disc is a feast for the ear and the heart.”

“…The Spanish pianist Javier Perianes finds in Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 an ideal mixture of virtuousic glitter and intimate moments. In the interplay with the orchestra, he shows a keen sense of the atmospheres and pictorial characters of the music: in the second movement, for instance, he lets a clutch of ethereal fairies flit over the fingerboard, and in the finale, he lion-like hammers the chords into the grand piano. With a wonderful Chopin Mazurka as an encore, Perianes whips up a magical enchantment of elegant and delicate nuances in tempo and colours which one wishes to hear in a solo recital very soon.”

“In the Ravel concerto, he was rhythmically crisp in the opening movement, poised in the lyrical central Adagio and nimble in the concluding Presto.”

“Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 had a topnotch interpreter in Javier Perianes. In turn confrontational, tempestuous, lyrical and joyful, Perianes’ account of this much loved concerto was delivered in the most satisfying sense. Simone Young took the orchestra through a beautifully gauged accompaniment to Perianes’ high artistry. This was everywhere apparent as the soloist expounded the composer’s musical argument in a way that sounded entirely convincing. The cadenza was flawless. … Avalanches of insistent and thoroughly deserved applause resulted, at last, in an encore. With lights on stage dimmed, the audience listened in absorbed silence to an exquisitely wrought, poetic offering: Chopin’s posthumously published Nocturne in C sharp minor. Its haunting lyricism was exquisitely evoked.”

“Of the second program…we shall recall above all the poetically poised and magnificently phrased performance of Beethoven’s 4^th Piano Concerto by Javier Perianes. The supreme shadings in the extensive cadenza of the first movement, and his way of muttering the Andante were highly memorable indeed.”

“In the Spanish soloist Javier Perianes, the work found an ideal exponent. His demeanour and technique – those flexible wrists! – radiate calm, yet the precision and speed of his fingerwork can be quite shattering. Seldom, if ever, have I encountered such a combination of evident modesty and utter brilliance.”

“The soloist was the Spaniard Javier Perianes, a player of great elegance and understated flamboyance, in many ways the work’s ideal interpreter. Limpidity gave way to weight in the gathering drama of the first movement … which Perianes negotiated with exquisite grace and a wonderful lightness of touch. The finale, expressing ​“the joy of a sea crossing” according to Saint-Saëns, was all elation and dexterous wit.”

“The Spanish pianist Javier Perianes is rapidly establishing his reputation in the UK, with a Wigmore Hall recital and BBC dates under his belt, and his recent Mendelssohn release has been widely acclaimed. This date (replacing Menahem Pressler) with the LPO confirmed what an exceptional musician he is. From the piano’s famous opening chord of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, you knew that something special was going to unfold. The work is not a virtuoso vehicle for egotists but presents all manner of challenges in terms of poetry, narrative and dialogue… Perianes’s encore – Chopin’s A minor Mazurka, Opus 17/4 – lingered unforgettably in a world of half-lit melancholy. I cannot wait to hear Perianes again.”

“Javier Perianes gave a magnificent performance of the Ravel Concerto in G major, with impeccable technique as well as great musical inspiration. From the beginning the bright glissandi and incredible finesse of his arpeggios blew the spark that electrified the atmosphere between stage and audience […]”