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"Cameron Roberts made an intelligent and suitably grandiose creature of the “Emperor”, No.5 in E flat. This involves a test of any player’s stamina. Roberts displayed a highly impressive grasp of the concerto’s framework and his position inside it. He is a significant talent.”– Clive O’Connell, THE AGE, Melbourne, Australia, 1999

“One of the National Academy’s brighter sparks, pianist Cameron Roberts, gave a splendid hour’s worth of varied repertoire on Saturday night. He opened with an exemplary Bach Partita No. 1, a lucid appreciation of the work’s benign busy-ness coming over. This was followed by Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, treated with a compelling breadth of expression and subtlety that mitigated the work’s neurasthenic language. Two deftly contrasting Grainger pieces preceded four Rachmaninov preludes of high-calibre playing. Along with the essential technical facility, Roberts invested these with a controlled vehemence that you might have encountered in a musician twice his age. He is no slouch at bravura, either, as shown by his glittering, slick reading of Gershwin’s I got rhythm in a Earl Wild transcription, with his own touches added for good measure.” – Clive O’Connell, THE AGE, Melbourne, Australia, 2000

“The [Bach] is not short on colourful touches. Roberts using sustaining pedal discreetly and introducing some metrical flexibility, as well as opening up some usually hidden lines, as in the final Quodlibet. With a highly developed technical facility, the pianist made exciting work of the faster sections, particularly those that require the hands to cross. Roberts has a clear grasp of the work and manipulated its internal pulleys and levers with impressive insight.

"He ended with his own transcription of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, a sterling demonstration of keeping most of the original’s 10 lines on the boil, admirable at many points for the player’s clean management of the chain of thirds... Roberts’ praiseworthy treatment of another [Rachmaninoff] song, Sleep – the most effective example of this young artist’s high level of musicianship" – Clive O’Connell, THE AGE, Melbourne, Australia, 2006

Cameron Roberts - Original Piano Transcriptions (2009)

• Vivaldi/Roberts Summer (from The Four Seasons) • Rachmaninoff/Roberts How beautiful it is here, The Morn of Life, Sleep • Gershwin/Roberts Rhapsody in Blue • Bach/Roberts Largo (from Concerto for Two Violins) • Tchaikovsky/Roberts 1812 Overture • Faure/Roberts In Paradisum

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BACH - Goldberg Variations & Original Transcriptions (2006)

Bach • Goldberg Variations
Bach arr. Roberts • Es ist Vollbracht • Aus Liebe will mein Heiland Sterben • Brandenburg Concerto No.3

Roberts' thought-provoking Goldbergs...with the pivotal 25th variation sensitively given - Limelight Magazine, Australia, May 2006

Private sale, studio recording
A collection of Piano Solo Favourites (Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, etc.)

Private sale, live recording. St.John’s, Southgate, Melbourne. Works by Bach, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Grainger & Gershwin