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This is altogether very impressive playing, capturing all the intimacy of the pieces which Brahms labelled as Intermezzos, as well as the drama and urgency of the more outward-going Capriccios…What... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A beautiful disc, this, its message one of gentle longing and nostalgia, though the playing is anything but sentimental. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

James Lee III (b1975) is a master colourist. His orchestration is dazzlingly vivid and teems with detail...he also has a keen ear for harmonic colour, as is readily evident throughout. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2022 More…

This is a disc to treasure. Should the Concert champêtre be performed on the piano? Poulenc said no, but did it often. Bollani's lightly pedalled sound is, for me, utterly convincing and... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Darkness and light, poems and stories. Pianist Inon Barnatan is fascinated by these aspects of this exceptionally effective programme...Barnatan's sustaining of the disrupted stillness in Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Colin Jacobsen’s orchestration of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata is mostly convincing...had you never heard the original, you might accept this as a viable slice of Beethoven...Shorthand is an... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is a surprisingly striking contrast between its crystalline voicing, clear articulation and warm tone that makes the listener feel that it is concerned with the plain and simple beauty... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

What makes this disc entrancingly fresh is its use of boy choristers: their translucence as a choir, their colours as soloists, and their easy swing through florid passages inject lightness... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

gloriously broad, magisterial readings of Browne’s two Salve Regina settings and other solemn delights by Horwood and William, Monk of Stratford, delivering the listener to the beating heart... — Choir & Organ, May 2017 More…