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Gerhardt has a honeyed, liquid tone all his own. He has created a well-contrasted programme that clearly took a long time to research and hone...This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and it’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Popper’s Elfentanz zips by in a hummingbird whirr of iridescent colour and needlepoint precision: spectacular playing by any standards. And Nadia Boulanger would surely have enjoyed the neoclassical... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Strauss and Wagner prove here that they are masters of chamber music as well as the operas they are most well known for. These pieces are full of passion, played here with conviction. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Boasting immaculate production values from the Biddulph team and exemplary annotations from Tully Potter, Felix Salmond’s Complete Columbia Recordings, recorded 1926-30, sound as pristine here... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…