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The intrinsic qualities of the music featured here are self-evident. A wonderfully affectionate and strongly characterised performance of Korngold's Much Ado about Nothing suite sets the ball... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Mints and Katya Apekisheva are passionate and dedicated guides to Schnittke’s expressive landscapes as they evolve from late-Shostakovian grimaces to polystylistic melanges of neo-Baroque stylisation... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Mints has been an advocate for Hindemith from the outset of his career…[He] plays with the incisiveness and flexibility that these works require but seldom receive, with Alexander Kobrin unstinting... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

…this recital is full of powerful music played with passion and skill. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2006 More…

Here is a pianist who uses a superlative technique to project performances that glow with an inner light of understanding... Negishi’s performance is warm and compelling – she is a born storyteller…Negishi’s... — International Piano, September 2022 More…

the composer has ensured a fresh slant on his most familiar work such that it loses only a little of its provocative force. It helps that Maira Alikhanova and Dmitri Bulgakov are so evidently... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…