FRANCE: James Boyk, genius at once professional musician, professor of music, physicist-acoustician, is known equally as a great perfectionist in recording and sound reproduction. On this SACD, he is on top of his form at the Bösendorfer Impérial in Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Mozart. The recorded sound is very natural.

SWEDEN:  Boyk is no doubt an outstanding pianist endowed with remarkable feeling for the music's innermost emotions.

AUSTRALIA:  Absolutely superb recording of a superb piano (a beautifully tuned Bösendorfer Impérial). The sonic realism was jaw-dropping: it was easy to believe that the piano was right there in my room. A disc that should be in every audiophile's collection for the capture of the piano sound (and used as an object lesson for recording engineers), but it should also be in every music-lover's collection by reason of Boyk's superb interpretation of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue which is so perfectly interpreted and played that it brought tears to my eyes and sent a chill down my spine on my first listening. Even now, after months of hearing it, I still listen with a sense of suspended disbelief.

USA:  One of the best-sounding piano recordings I have ever heard. Fortunately, the artistic quality fully measures up to the sound.... Boyk is one of those "why have I never heard of this artist before?" discoveries.