Chandos

The pianist’s straightforward temperament and respect for the text emphasise truth over charm...Donohoe’s cogent and articulate annotations bring welcome personal and musical perspectives to... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

His playing in this second installment is quite as exemplary in touch, phrasing, characterisation and continuity, while the recorded sound is again intimate yet unconstricted...Bavouzet brings... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

lively and nuanced pianism in translucent recorded sound — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a marvellously inventive collection...There has been a tendency towards more red-blooded performances of Debussy's String Quartet in recent years...The Brodsky Quartet partially fit... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Fauré’s unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the Barcarolles reflecting a mature mastery. Nor is there... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet establishes his credentials immediately with a gripping account of Horowitz’s ‘edition’ of the Third Sonata, which climaxes in a moto perpetuo finale that the Frenchman somehow manages... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This will lift the spirits...The brass of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande are full of verve, nicely crisp yet harrumphing when needed, while the woodwind are markedly less acidic than in... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Musorgsky’s magnum opus requires pianism of dazzling virtuoso panache, and here Douglas is really in his element. He may not quite evoke the wild irascibility and devil-may-care unorthodoxy... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…