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Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[Potter’s] approach is varied…In the Gloria of the Mass and elsewhere [he[] artfully switches between parts as he goes along so as to produce an appealing continuous vocal line. The instrumentalists... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012More…

You won’t be surprised to learn there’s nothing musically flashy or flippant here; no bumble bees flying, for instance. Instead Schiff has put each of his sonata programmes under the microscope... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

All one can do with music as esoteric as this is to remember the greatness of what Birtwistle has written before and go on listening...The singer of what sounds like an extraordinary difficult... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

…riveting performances from Carolin Widmann and Dénes Várjon. In their skilled hands the nervous pulsating of the First Sonata's opening phrases is resolved in a magical glow of C major… that... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Levin fully understands the whole work's structure and his fingers to all that could be asked of them. He is alive, too, to the poetry of the atmospheric pieces and, with Ya-Fei Chuang, gives... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The Concerto is a portrait of Louis Soutter, who studied the violin with Ysaÿe, and later became a painter of dark pictures… Holliger quotes the opening of this particular sonata in distorted... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Holloway… uses rubato continually: notes extended for expressive emphasis are balanced by moments where the music flows forward unimpeded. This is heard most impressively in the florid introductory... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2006More…