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"Not yet 20, the Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister makes an outstanding Supraphon debut with this recital of Russian music... all three composers are united here through Schulmeister's intense musicality. It's always good to hear Pictures at an Exhibition in its original version for piano rather than an overblown orchestration, yet Schulmeister makes Mussorgsky's suite sound even more subtle than usual... There's more musical intelligence on show in Rachmaninov's Six Moments Musicaux... Many pianists would end there, but Schulmeister offers a reflective encore (Scriabin's Etude, Op. 2 No. 1) to make this feel like a real recital." (BBC Music Magazine, October 2025)
"Reserved in the Tuileries, the Czech pianist shines in Limoges. As superbly toned as he is controlled, Bydlo reveals a subtle musician. With a splendid Grande Porte de Kyiv, Jan Schulmeister finally lets loose, negotiating chordal leaps with panache. His finesse works wonders in Scriabin's Preludes Op. 16. The captivating first navigates between earth and sky, the next confirms a masterful command of sound, while the fourth distills its mournful murmurs... With this first album on Supraphon, the nineteen-year-old artist has achieved a remarkable success: one to watch!" (Diapason, October 2025)
"When I last reviewed Fiser´s Sonata ´The Hands´, over a decade ago, I called it a masterpiece..... it´s work you should hear and at only eleven minutes it will reward your interets. These young musicians have constructed a fine disc ........which has been well recorded and annotated. It serves notice of yet another excellent pairing in the Czech firmament......" (MusicWeb International, August 2025)
"...on this new disc you can hear their preternaturally intelligent musicality deployed in repertoire that is, for the most part, relatively little represented on record... Matejča rises splendidly to the music's many dazzling technical challenges, but also imbues the more reflective passages with a depth and richness of tone that never tips over into the cloying... it is to be hoped that he and Schulmeister will return with more 20th-century Czech treasures soon, for this is one of the most satisfying, thoughtful and imaginatively realised recital discs we have heard this year." (Europadisc, July 2024)
"Jan Schulmeister played Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major with wonderful color and exquisite plasticity, a classic plus." (Aleš Bluma)
"Jan Schulmeister performed the Prelude from Ferenc Liszt's Transcendental Etudes really brilliantly." Klasikaplus (Věroslav Němec)
"The sparkler of the brilliant Ukrainian-American pianist is a clear demonstration of piano technique and Jan Schulmeister showed absolute reliability in it."
"Also, the two encores showed that the young pianist is not only a predator hunting for record tempos, but he has an understanding for subtle musical poetry and a fanciful play of light and shadow. " Klasikaplus (Milan Bátor)