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An exciting idea this…and it works! After all, Bartók greatly admired Scarlatti: he even recorded a couple of his sonatas. Both composers were innovators and combined a strong feeling for rhythm... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Here is a pianist who explores the inner recesses of Schumann's glowing romanticism with a delicate emotional fervour very much his own. Finely recorded, this most elegant and stylish pianist... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 More…

…Lazic's bland treatment of the famous opening bars… belies the character of the rest of the performance: the build to the first movement's climax is impressively handled… and the second and... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 More…

A 57-minute sequence of searching pieces for unaccompanied viola sounds like a disc of a certain austerity, and so it is, an exploration of music typically cast in “thick vital layers”, to use... — Sunday Times, 15th February 2015 More…