Bridge

It’s been well worth the wait for these performances. Restoration has done what it can for the boxy originals, but the energy and drive of the playing will make up for that. — MusicWeb International, March 2012 More…

It's rare enough to have all four Gershwin works for piano and orchestra on a single disc but rarer still for each one to come near or top of the class.
First, and unusually enough, McDermott... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The piano playing is of exceptional quality: refined, multi-coloured, elegant of phrase and immaculately balanced, both in itself and in relation to the effortlessly stylish orchestra. The rhythm... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Lark traverse [Higdon's music] with ease and ardour — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are vibrant, colourful musicians who are not afraid to spike conventionally sweet textures with hot pepper, or to roughen up edges that others smooth out...A stimulating and superbly engineered... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2014 More…

The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Though remastered, the recordings rather show their age – resulting in no small amount of charm. Shulman’s music, though, is full of orchestral colour and narrative flavour. What a shame he... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

All the performances seem authoritative. Special attention must be paid to the composer’s wife Susan, who has mastered the technique of performing on her viola while singing, and in Khmer to... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…