Jeff Simon, Buffalo News:

...hear how profoundly beautifully Schaaf plays them...(his) engagement with the music's depths is total and heartening. Three-and-a-half stars (out of four). (Read complete review)

Mark Estren, www.infodad.com:

...this is an exceptionally fine Iberia performance, drawing listeners in through Schaaf’s sheer intensity and the dedication that he so clearly brings to each of the 12 pieces...Schaaf’s Iberia is a very considerable achievement, delightful to hear and played with enthusiasm that is absolutely infectious. (Read complete review)

Harris Goldsmith:

...bracing rhythms, crystalline textures, pungent harmonic details... This impressive new recording of Albéniz's valedictory masterpiece (is) an accomplishment which Schaaf can take immense credit for. (Read complete review)

Andy Quint, The Absolute Sound magazine:

...Schaaf’s Iberia is highly evocative and belies a deep familiarity with the music. Captured by engineer Ryan Streber, the sound is pretty much ideal. It’s as close-up as you’d want, percussive without inside-the-piano claustrophobia, but still possesses an excellent sense of the instrument’s mass. Truly among the best-sounding piano recordings I’ve ever heard. (Read complete review)

Bruce Hodges, (Seen and Heard International) in The Juilliard Journal:

...Schaaf acquits himself with distinction. In this immensely challenging panorama of Spanish scenes, he finds poetry, and shows that Albéniz’s quiet moments can pack the same kind of wallop as those which set the keyboard ablaze...Schaaf's facility and affinity for the composer's colors and evocative rhythms will make many sit up and take notice. (Read complete review)

Steven Ritter, Audiophile Audition (audaud.com):

A most welcome attempt at one of the mountains of the literature...a valid and quite successful take on a piece that discourages most comers—Schaaf was not afraid to tackle the lion. (Read complete review)