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There’s a sense of Bacewicz’s compositional imagination really taking wing in these pieces, and Jablonski commits to her vision. The First Sonata feels full of ambition, and Jablonski draws out... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From Emily Howard’s elegant, linear melody to Sally Beamish’s craggy soundscape, Humphreys channels Paganini’s virtuosity. She also displays playfulness and a light touch in pieces such as that... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Perfrormance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Berthomé-Reynolds has the works’ fearsome technical challenges under her fingers, including wild leaps and long chains of double-stops moving at high speed up the scale. One of the strengths... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

As in her first volume, Jennifer Pike (herself half-Polish) has chosen to anchor her survey to a substantial helping of Szymanowski, and she and pianist Petr Limonov open with a sweeping performance... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bacewicz's seven string quartets stand tall in the repertoire of 20th-century chamber music, worthy of comparison with works by more famous composers…Bacewicz wrote for strings with complete... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Step into a gorgeous string orchestra world. Rarer, colourful complete works by Suk and Bacewicz appear alongside Mahler’s adagietto and Elgar’s Nimrod. Plus a premiere, Yinon’s Vivid. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Herself a successful violinist, Bacewicz's violin works are idiomatic and stunningly effective. Lydia Mordkovitch produces ringingly authoritative interpretations: the music favours her rich,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…