Browse: CD, Liadov (composer)

Here is a virtuoso from the Golden Age who deserves a place alongside the Rosenthals and Hofmanns...I love the pacing, the tempo relationships, his effortless fluency and (easily discernible)... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

Once you settle into her slow and deliberate manner, unexpected beauties emerge; the short preamble to the C-sharp minor Mazurka Op 50/3 becomes a major event, while Op 56/3 in C minor is a complex... — International Piano, January 2021 More…

The Gürzenich Orchester Köln are an extremely fine ensemble but Dmitri Kitaenko smooths away the score’s rough edges in a pedestrian account. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018 More…

Near-contemporaries Arensky and Lyadov were both influenced by Chopin, as this wonderful recital proves. I could listen all day to Meermann-Muret’s phrasing and singing melodic line. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It would take a stone-hearted listener not to be charmed by these arrangements for mandolin or domra (a Russian member of the lute family) and piano. The works are largely familiar, the playing... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

De Maistre is a kind of Hamelin of the harp: the agility, the ease with which the most astonishing technical challenges are surmounted, the conversational phrasing and evenness of rapid passagework... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…