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Cooper and Podger perform the variations with typical verve… it’s impossible to ignore the individuality, vitality and commitment of their performances. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 More…

As so often with Ivan Fischer, it's the breadth of insight that impresses here...the outer movements and Scherzo have plenty of muscular energy, and yet the lines can sing too...The recorded... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Fischer finds more mystery in the slow introduction to the first movement of the Fourth Symphony than many other conductors...And it gets better and better: there's a beautiful, singing quality... — Classic FM Magazine, January 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Solomon coaxes lively performances out of the members of Florilegium, with the depictions of rain, lightning and thunder conjured up by Haydn in the concluding storm movement of ‘Le Soir’ sounding... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Cooper and Podger provide some spirited playing… with repeats imaginatively decorated, and they are admirably expressive in the slow movements. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Fedorova has been playing Chopin’s Fantaisie for years, and it shows; her excellent performance proves to be the disc’s high point. The pianist’s well-integrated tempo relationships between... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

This is Volume 1 of a complete set, and the series certainly gets off to a cracking start. The recording gives the fortepiano (an Adlam copy of a 1795 Anton Walther instrument) a full, rich,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If you had never heard these works before you would gasp in amazement at such fearless, sure-fingered playing from the soloist…he executes all difficulties without apparently breaking sweat…And... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019 More…