Presto Recordings of the Year, Szymanowski (composer)

Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Corina Belcea’s willingness to soar and slide with such sensual abandon makes it deliciously seductive… The second Szymanowski a decade later takes us even further with its post-Ravel impressionisms,... — BBC Radio 3More…

From the very spare opening piece [of the Bartók] onwards, Anderszewski adopts quite deliberate tempos, but still finds the nervous, spiky energy required for example in No. 2 (one of Bartók’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

In addition to his absolute technical mastery of these challenging scores, there's a purity to his performances of Bartók's music that comes, I think, from his ability to eschew extremes without... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025More…

the rare beauty of Orliński’s countertenor makes the whole recital an unusually introspective experience – and by any standards of Polish song recitals, this is an extraordinarily wide programme,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The reason you should care about this album isn’t because it’s got a great back story but because this is wonderful playing, supremely polished in technical terms and exuding maturity...In short,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020More…