"This is a broadly conceived Gershwin album with everything from juvenilia like ‘Rialto Ripples’ to standards like the Three Preludes.  British pianist Graham Scott has a natural feel for this music.  Without losing the basic pulse, he pushes rubato to the limit.  He also plays with maximum color and variety, sometimes rolling chords majestically, sometimes punching them out with a honky-tonk staccato.  His Gershwin struts, swaggers, and swings, but it can also be sweetly lyrical.  The sound is plush and smooth, allowing us to hear Scott’s suave tone and subtle voicing in slow numbers like ‘Maybe’ and ‘My One and Only’, and especially ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, which sounds gorgeous.  The album is entitled ‘Wild Fantasy’ and closes with Earl Wild’s Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess, which Scott accurately calls a ‘flamboyant and imaginative transcription’.  It’s a wild close to a satisfying Gershwin program." The American Record Guide

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“Few pianists, veteran or aspirant, old or young play with the polish and smoothness of Graham Scott, the debutante recitalist who appeared on the Gold Medal event at Ambassador Auditorium this week.  Such naturalness and fluency is the result of uncommonly good taste, an operative probably overworked, self-criticism and thousands of hours of practice.   Through it all he showed a technical mastery, colouristic variety and musical maturity.  What  places Scott heads above many of his contemporaries is his unforced approach to music and the piano itself.  He seems to have thought out the architectonic aspects of each piece he plays, the better to lay it out for his listeners.  When he does so, he delivers peaks and valleys, ascending climaxes and myriad details, all in support of that musical perspective, and in every moment observing the stylistic niceties that separate work from work.   This is an extraordinary pianist, whose every musical statement resonates with grace and conviction.” Los Angeles Times

“An exceptional talent.  Graham Scott is a pianist new to me but if this disc is anything to go by I shall certainly be keeping a keen eye on any future recordings.  Scott brings an outstanding degree of concentration and intensity to these magical pieces, and his delicacy of touch and his beautifully singing cantabile are much to be admired also.  The ninth Sonata, Black Mass, is impressive indeed and comes pretty close in stature to Demidenko’s account on Conifer.  Structurally it is extremely well controlled, and the tension is built up to quite a giddy state of frenzy before dissipating into the desolation of the closing bars... The recorded sound compliments this exceptionally fine recital which is most strongly recommended.”  Gramophone