Alpha

Helmchen’s commanding pianism and perceptive musicianship hold their own in a competitive catalogue…[he] imbues the music’s question-and-answer trajectory [in Variations 13] with a sense of... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2018 More…

Bags of invention have gone into this album...By meticulously combining different movements, Boulanger creates new surroundings for some well-known Bach movements. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

She’s a musician of immense skill with a strong point of view. Her choice of this beautiful Graf for her superbly recorded new Alpha disc seems fully justified. From the outset it is obvious... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Pashchenko has an exceptional way with Beethoven. She imbues both little Op. 49 sonatas with a disarming simplicity that can only be borne out of sophistication…[and] her outstanding rendition... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

Most successful are those tracks where the transcription retains the timbral world of the work’s earlier/first incarnation. In the E major Flute Sonata, BWV 1035 Julien Martin uses tempo rubato... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

If ever there were a piano sonata with a symphony lurking inside, it is the Brahms F minor. To Goerner’s immense credit, he doesn’t detonate the instrument in an effort to accommodate the occasionally... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2023 More…