"Ideal interpreter of the most important works of Albéniz, Iberia and the popular Spanish Suite, Guillermo Gonzalez is also the world's foremost authority on the composer. It is also an impressive pianist and there are not, of illuminating every corner of this complex work of angular rhythms here, rolling beyond, vivarachas of J and by persistent. Gonzalez gives the work a compelling majesty that gives depth to his litany of arabesques rhapsodic. Proves to be a magical performer.
It is the very definition of mature and authentic virtuoso: a storyteller from the sounds.”
John Bell Young
St. Petersburg Times
"This is real music.. […] Guillermo Gonzalez's interpretation matches the best in every way, and often exceeds the subtlety of inflection and rhythm curve. […] Their sound has a broad spectrum but is never nasty, characterization is both varied and vivid. ".
Jeremy Siepmann
BBC Music Magazine
"Guillermo Gonzalez is in my opinion, the leading Spanish pianist of our time. Versions of Alicia de Larrocha and Esteban Sanchez are beautiful frescos, prodigious paintings. But I see them as well, in two dimensions. However, Guillermo Gonzalez's Iberia can be felt, you can taste.
It is the most important album the record label Naxos, who had the uncommon wisdom of ordering the best performer this recording possible.”
Diego Fernández Magdaleno
Béjar Information
"Guillermo Gonzalez leaves you without the slightest doubt that it is a well-equipped pianist – both technically and imaginatively- to interpret the works of Albéniz. There is little to object to these actions, and also causes the assent of the audience who enjoyed pleasure.”
Glyn Pursglove
"A young man from a powerful personality. From one extreme to another in this recital, Guillermo Gonzalez, has shown the same technical mastery and the same spiritual tone. We were not in the line of entertainment, but in the sense of musical knowledge beyond words. "
The Mountain. France
"With great temperament, Guillermo Gonzalez was expected of a remarkable safety by separating and taming some obstacles without difficulty score and the other to exit the national soul and character.
Very fine taste and sense in the nuances and a pianist who knows beyond pure virtuosity of his playing his instrument to speak.
Liberty
Freiburg. Switzerland
[…] Guillermo Gonzalez had a great personal success and deserved, […] has again shown its great pianist condition, one of the earliest of Spain, by sound, technical and musical concept. The deserved National Award of Music holds, recognizes its particular attention to Spanish music […] excellent pianist, […] honest seeker of musical truth beyond any hype exhibitionist.
Antonio Fernández-Cid
Novosón. Madrid
"Possibly the albeniciana Iberia Tenerife pianist who has given us is among the best we've heard. For balanced concept, free of any concession pintoresquiesta, for a clear run in which the notes above, there were many, triunfo autenticidad the musicals, evident from the opening bars of the "Evocation" to the ethereal conclusion of the "Corpus Christi en Sevilla". If Messianen Oliver says Isaac Albéniz's Iberia is the wonder, the masterpiece of Spanish music, oyéndosela pianist Guillermo González canary is a good test rather than ".
Ricardo Hontañón
El Diario Montanes. Santander
"Excellent solo, sure, who overcame the obstacle of the Mozart sound all over his successful intervention, y tocando beautifully musicalidad, aided by mechanical means high class ".
Antonio Iglesias
Journal Information. Madrid
"[…] not a Pianist, not even a splendid pianist, gifted artist, but an exceptional virtuoso, with a power of inner emotion as impressive, that is able to create that atmosphere in the auditorium wonderful spiritual communication with the aesthetic message that work and its author intended. It is today, undoubtedly, one of the most formidable pianists Spanish, […] with the ineffable greatness of a technique, with the beauty of sound without artists, with the excellence of its multiple and multifarious forms of attack, his sensitive and passionate temperament, his great soul artist in a word ".
Julio Garcia Casas
Seville
"It belongs to the rare breed of pianists, possessing a technique totally unusual, also has the gift of vocation absolute interpretation ".
F. Vizoso
Diario El Comercio. Gijón
"Perhaps the most beautiful edition of Iberia, Albéniz has conducted the pianist and professor Guillermo Gonzalez, is making available to researchers, scholars and bibliophiles of a remarkable facsimile of the handwritten scores […] grouped and beautifully printed in a book edited by EMEC-Edemsa, neatly bound and contains a comprehensive historical study documentary about the gestation of the work, signed by the musicologist Jacinto Torres. […] Along with this facsimile will have the most circulated for pianists: Urtext edition […] and a revised edition by William Gonzalez that includes suggestions for fingering, clarifies the original indications and provides other, very useful for the performer to clearly observe the course of the voices. These two editions, admirably printed in paperback, includes a collection of entries written to the interpreters Albéniz, with staves, and are a bewildering array of images and suggestions […]".
José Luis Garcia del Busto
"The tenacity of the pianist Professor Guillermo Gonzalez has resulted in a stunning edition of Iberia […]. An impressive edition includes three books: a beautiful facsimile, one and a revised dedición Urtext Gonzalez added the fingerings and slight adjustments resulting from its knowledge of the great work albeniziana. To say that this edition corrects dozens of errors in a book so well known and played by the world produces a stupor ".
J.F.G.
Magazine Sweet Notes
"Guillermo Gonzalez play a third concert of Bela Bartok, difficult and complex work not only in technical but expressive content, in a splendid: means and criteria for its musicality and fluidity, clear mechanism, for its rich sound varied in color, were just as varied levels, nuance and phrasing to, but always with the most exemplary lack of involvement […]. It is of the greatest pianists of this Spanish: of the strongest, by musicality and technique. His is transparent, neat, balanced, like the sound very beautiful and round-- and the concept without falling into excesses expressive mannered […] Can be admired in him not only the total technical mastery, the strength of the mechanism, but clarity, concept and good style […] after hearing him in the Schumann Concerto, affirm my judgments, completely positive. A musical approach and firm, a copy of the concept seriously, a powerful technique, mechanism transparent in sound quality-solid, full, sweet, malleable-, precise rhythmic sense, version benefited […]".
Antonio Fernandez – Cid
ABC. Madrid
"Few pianists have been able, so far, Iberia offer, Albéniz, entirely, in one hearing. […] Guillermo Gonzalez, one of the leading figures of the Hispanic pianism, has undertaken such a task repeatedly with great success. He now writes his acting ability in a case the Naxos label which includes the complete Iberia, suites plus two Spanish, interpretations simply wonderful ".
M.F.
El Norte de Castilla. Segovia.
"For every pianist, especially if it is Spanish, Iberia is an extraordinary challenge. First, chilling because of its technical difficulty; but also because it requires virtuosity to reconcile the transcendent grace, panache, the apparent ease, the ability to pre impressionist evocation. In sum, the interpreter must be able to express the essence of musical Spanishness substance in all its nuances and richness of. Gonzalez masterfully achieved and pianism of law, within an approach which sobriety denotes the concern of avoiding dangerous over-expressive and always let the popularization of Spanish. An excellent version of a work that never runs dry ".
Álvaro Marías
ABC. Madrid
"The listener will perceive fine thousand and one details […] New in this version of Gonzalez and that result, first the fact of going to the sources (Albéniz's own manuscripts), second, interpretation has been subjected to the purest musical reflection […]. The version benefits […] a bit of authenticity and purity, coupled with the sheer quality piano Guillermo Gonzalez, makes it "essential reference […]".
José Luis Garcia del Busto
Revista Ritmo. Madrid
"[…] A unique version of Iberia, variables which always arouse the punctilious interpretive sensitivity of those who know and love as it is; Spanish piano summit ".
Guillermo Garcia-Mayor
Diario La provincia
A performer whose technique bordering on the supernatural, allows amazing fidelity to the score, not always offered by other (even the most exalted).
José Manuel Ruiz Martínez