Browse: Quartz (label)

There’s something wonderfully unshowy about Medvedev’s performance here, despite the glittering quality of such works as Tchaikovsky’s Grand Sonata in Gmajor. Other pianists might be tempted... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Oshima and Stroissnig certainly seem to have a clear and disturbing picture of the sonata’s emotional implications, which are incorporated into an interpretation of impressive dynamic thrust,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

You can’t fault the performances. Noakes plays with great agility and exquisite tone, whether spinning out the long phrases of the Trio’s Andantino or negotiating the flickering complexities... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

...Kristine Blaumane… is a technically fine player… Her passionate playing is heard to best effect in Barber's apprentice Sonata… — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 More…

there are flashes of extraordinary playing...Indeed, there is much to recommend it - the perfect tuning, poise and control that glide through the multitude of styles that Schnittke uses to evoke... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

In this first all-Desyatnikov album released in the UK, we are transported to an eerie, sometimes dream-like and often disturbing soundworld...But it's the title track...which most suggests that... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…