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It says much for Charles Owen and his understanding of this composer that a young British pianist should present this music with such a distinctive voice. As is evident from the first of the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style – patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail – reminds me of Schneiderhan and Kempff’s classic mid-50’s set…They may... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

Some of the new works play their part better than others…The Beethoven recordings sound very much ‘as live’, with the odd passing blemish left as it is – but I’d certainly put up with that for... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Rudge is in refulgent voice for the darkly passionate Op. 60 diptych of 1910…[Neven] gives a splendidly lusty account of ‘The Pipes of Pan’. Elsewhere, Neven and Wordsworth make out an unexpectedly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

Cummings doesn't miss a detail: every trill and ornament is realised with the utmost clarity and his expertly balanced playing manages the rare feat of making the melody lines truly cantabile.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

This is not exciting or showy playing, but solidly musical and utterly stylish. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

[Sacheverell-Coke's] 24 Preludes' style and manner is soaked in the Romantic piano tradition (Rachmaninov uppermost), yet harmonic twists and an obsessive repetitions of melody and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Most impressive throughout the disc is McCawley’s command of subtle nuance and rubato without ever sounding self-conscious or mannered. The impression, so artfully mediated, is that the music... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The women, too, wrote music of exceptional skill and beauty…Their works inhabit distinctive, highly Romantic soundworlds full of invention and drama, the interweaving of violin, cello and piano... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…