The leading collaborative pianist has worked with innumerable great artists and covered vast swathes of repertoire. His complete Fauré songs on disc has been much praised: ‘Martineau’s understanding of Fauré’s piano-writing, in which less means more, and virtuosity is avoided in favour of nuance, remains impeccable’, wrote Gramophone of Volume 2, while for The Observer he has been ‘ever an authoritative, agile and responsive pianist’.