Bridge

Ponthus doesn't just have quicksilver fingers. The phrasing, the harmonic evolution and the music's rhythmic inner engine spark into intelligent life; he voyages deep inside the music's journey,... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

It's rare enough to have all four Gershwin works for piano and orchestra on a single disc but rarer still for each one to come near or top of the class.
First, and unusually enough, McDermott... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The piano playing is of exceptional quality: refined, multi-coloured, elegant of phrase and immaculately balanced, both in itself and in relation to the effortlessly stylish orchestra. The rhythm... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Lark traverse [Higdon's music] with ease and ardour — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are vibrant, colourful musicians who are not afraid to spike conventionally sweet textures with hot pepper, or to roughen up edges that others smooth out...A stimulating and superbly engineered... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2014 More…

Though remastered, the recordings rather show their age – resulting in no small amount of charm. Shulman’s music, though, is full of orchestral colour and narrative flavour. What a shame he... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…