The New Yorker: Notable Classical Recordings of 2023
Ligeti, Études, Capriccios; Han Chen (Naxos) selected by Alex Ross as one of The New Yorker's notable classical recordings of 2023.
Gramophone: The Best Classical Music Albums of 2023
"The superb pianist Han Chen draws on an equal affinity with Romantic and contemporary repertoire to bring us a survey of Ligeti's Études which, writes reviewer Jed Distler, stands among the best."
The New Yorker: Lisztomania Enters the Twenty-First Century
"Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Études and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of the opera transcriptions."
Gramophone: LIGETI Complete Études (Han Chen)
"[Chen]'s one of the few pianists who handles both gnarly contemporary scores and over-the-top Romantic showpieces with equal authority and style"
ClassicsToday: Han Chen’s Stunning Naxos Liszt Debut
"It isn’t just Chen’s assured, elegant, and totally effortless technique that blows me away, it’s also his idiomatic flair, his use of color and touch to convey character, plus a gift for textural variety and differentiation that one associates with golden age legends."
Gramophone: Liszt Opera Transcriptions
"Han Chen is impressively commanding and authoritative. What’s more, he seems to be thoroughly enjoying himself."