The Guardian

London-based Irish pianist Mary Dullea has been exploring a fascinating contemporary canon in recent years, and her latest album Persian Autumn (Divine Art Records) sees her performing works by two Iranian composers: nonagenarian Hormoz Farhat’s two piano sonatas, written nearly 60 years apart, mix bombast and whimsy with the odd Lisztian flourish. Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour is the wild card, his compositions quizzical collections of acute angles and irregular shapes that Dullea colours beautifully.

—John Lewis