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Precise (except where blowsy imprecision is an atmospheric decision) but always characterful, this attractive disc wears its historical knowledge and skill lightly enough to appeal well beyond... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018More…

Antonio Meneses delivers technically immaculate and warmly expressive playing throughout these three well-established 19th-century repertoire works…beautifully recorded and very fine performances... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Ben-Pienaar certainly holds his own in these gentle, smiling, quirky pieces...[In the Diabellis] Ben-Pienaar is excellent, though he is less well recorded than he should be — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Notwithstanding the odd rough edge, the eponymous Cypress Quartet play these arrangements with exquisite shading and a fine sense of nuance. Their performance of Dvorak's last and greatest quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

In Cassado's dark, sensuous Suite, inspired by Kodaly but infused with Spanish undertones, he exudes a mesmerising, Zen-like calm: tenderly shaped curlicues, ornate arabesques, and complex harmonic... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

In Alexander Panfilov, cellist Christoph Croisé has a pianist who can match him for soulful, scrupulous introspection but who also guides the big outbursts and then turn to a darker cast of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

I find nothing to criticize; these readings for me capture the spirit of Schubert’s piano style. His playing is at once natural and sympathetic, and blessedly free of artifice. — Fanfare, May/June 2021More…