Challenge Classics

This is, quite simply, gorgeous. Nino Gvetazde plays Schumann’s much-loved Arabeske, Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana, as though they flow spontaneously from her. Time is elastic, liberated from... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Anna Lucia Richter's beguiling, light soprano floats limpidly through the air, a thing of evanescent beauty. Gees accompanies her with hypersensitivity, rhythms and harmonies blending in an... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

the best comes from Lili Boulanger. D’un soir triste sounds as if it could be a delightful Elgarian salon work; yet the French composer is at her most profound in this ten-minute piece...She... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Franck's and Ysaye's chromatically intensified sound-worlds possess an aching sensual allure in Jacobs's deeply felt, beguiningly phrased readings. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

an original, excellently planned programme tracing the links from Romanticism to modernism. Thoughtful playing. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…