Debussy: Piano Music Vol 3 (Including Preludes Bk 2 & 'Berceuse héroïque')

Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2006)

"You cannot afford to miss this "Boîte à joujoux". However many versions of "Préludes" you may have you'll not regret adding this one"
(MusicWeb Feb 2008)

"Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa continues her exploration of Debussy with a third CD devoted to that composer's piano works. It maintains her high standards, with some dazzling virtuosity and a clear-eyed lack of sentiment. No stranger to the Editor's Choice pages, Ogawa continues to capitalise on her Leeds Piano Competition success, confirming her reputation as one of the most exciting pianists of the younger generation."
(Gramophone)

"Technical expertise and the brilliance characterises all of Ogawa's performances on this stunning CD"
(MusicWeb Feb 2006)

Few cycles have started as auspiciously as Noriko Ogawa's recordings of Debussy's complete music for solo piano. The first volume (BIS-CD-1105) was greeted with great enthusiasm by the reviewers who called Ogawa 'a Debussy interpreter of exceptional class' (International Record Review) and 'a leading exponent of this music, surely the greatest piano music of the 20th century' (MusicWeb International). In particular, the critics remarked upon Ogawa's 'luscious' piano sound (American Record Guide) and 'highly differentiated and many-layered soundscape' (Klassik Heute) as well as the finely worked interpretations, their 'clarity, delicacy and impeccable sense of proportion' (BBC Music Magazine).
Volume two (BIS-CD-1205) was equally well-received, and was made an Editor's Choice in the Gramophone, whose reviewer wrote: 'Every bar of these new performances confirm Ogawa as a most elegant, scrupulously sensitive interpreter of 'music like a dream from which one draws away the veil'.'