Challenge Classics

Manacorda is sunny and relaxed, an impression enhanced by exceptionally lush and velvety sound engineering which puts us at some distance from the performers even when listening through the... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

There's an exciting, on-the-edge quality to the Schumann's first movement under the fingers of Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma…sonorous of timbre, with her bow really biting the strings on those... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Orth brings out the volatile nature that was always inherent in Scriabin's music…[showing] that the colour of the harmony, the shape of the motifs and the weaving of textures have a distinct,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic plays the music with consummate virtuosity — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

He plays the Corelli Variations, Op 42, and the revised, shortened version of the Second Piano Sonata, Op 36, with impressive precision and power, the textures kept mostly clean. Yet in calmer... — Sunday Times, 28th April 2013 More…

These performances are outstanding. Both violinists are superb, producing smooth, silvery tones through wide ranges of pitch and dynamics, and they work together well. Milstein plays first violin... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

what makes this release so outstanding is the quality of Tsujii's interpretative response to two very demanding, and very different composers. His powerful, yet unhurried manner and full, rather... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…