The audience, like Vesuvius, erupted with one massive cheer, jumping to its feet, settling for a moment like hot pumice only to explode again minutes later for two more dazzling pyrotechnic encores. …all the flamboyance, adrenaline and infectious passion that youth and virtuosity could muster.
- Performance Arts Monterey Bay
Bloody knuckles and poked eyes: these two play rough.
- WMRA
No more sensational young piano duo team can be found than the Anderson & Roe Duo … the most dynamic duo of this generation.
Explosive creativity ... refreshing ... exuberant ... volatile and thrilling.
- San Francisco Classical Voice
There is an overriding joy in their music-making. Couple that with incredible technical abilities, ensemble second to none, and, in their videos, a true sense of theatrical entertainment, and you have a positive look at the future of classical music performance. They do have it all, and any classical music lover owes it to himself to hear Anderson & Roe.
- American Record Guide
Sparkling … exhilarating!
Certainly [Bach] would have embraced Anderson & Roe's ingenuity and musicianship. Uncanny ensemble prowess ... gorgeously calibrated legato phrasing. The music dances off the page.
- Gramophone
Breathtaking. They breathed as one … an almost telepathic understanding of each other’s musicianship and an outrageous and transcendental technique.
Testament to the popularity of Anderson & Roe: the line for their autographs was longer than that for Lang Lang's.
- The Straits Times
At the core of Anderson & Roe's performance is a downright lustful grab for the music's raw impulses. Spotless diction, perfect teamwork, expertly balanced dynamics. They have a monumental sound; their warm, full tone is a delight ... Their arrangements are feats of magic. Huge cheers.
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the keyboard.
- The Southampton Press
Anderson & Roe are among the best classical pianists before the public today … they can do anything. They play Mozart like nobody’s business: electrifying in its freshness and vitality. I don’t think I’ll ever hear [Mozart’s Sonata in D Major] played better.
- Audiophile Voice
Bold and brash, full of unexpected twists, Anderson and Roe pull off an expertly rendered, elegantly pianistic moonwalk.
- NPR
The highest level of artistry. Phrasings tapered across the instruments; harmonies blended sumptuously; articulations were perfectly matched in weight and color.
- The Star-Telegram
Believe all the hype: Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe—more famously called Anderson & Roe—are electric. The piano duo did more than celebrate the launch of their new album; they fashioned an entirely new concert experience.
- Bachtrack
Anderson & Roe gave an electrifying performance that swept the audience into a cheering mass of humanity, making a strong case that playing piano is the most fun thing that two people could ever do together.
- Northwest Reverb
Even the most jaded of concert goers sat forward in their seats and dropped their jaws in amazement as these two just re-wrote the book of the tedious concert recital.
- The Herald-Tribune
Greg and Liz take an iconoclastic pleasure in smashing through the stereotype of classical music as a tame and harmless anachronism.
- Clavier Companion