Hyperion

Occasionally there's no disguising the music's considerable technical demands, but the founder-director of L'Avventura London is a thoughtful guide to music that doesn't always yield its secrets... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The excellent Leonore Trio certainly give their all in these often exciting and beautiful works, most especially the B minor Trio, No. 2. There's high virtuosity all round - superb light, dazzling... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Lane's light-fingered ascents and rapid scalic plunges are perfectly complemented by the Goldners' feather-light string playing. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Here is a stimulating well-contrasted programme. Each sonata benefits from Angela Hewitt's beautifully clean-cut pianistic commant, in which every score marking is placed within a precisely... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015More…

Christopher Hogwood and Katel Matoušek are entirely at home with this repertoire. There is a huge amount to enjoy. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Throughout every work O'Donnell's direction is alive to the sophisticated vocal layering, and ever attentive to the meaning of the words - an innate musicality echoed in Robert Quinney's 'voluntary... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Howard is obviously the right man for tackling a complete edition of Liszt's piano music — CD ReviewMore…

A contemporary composer takes a 19th-century classic, Schumann's song cycle Liederkreis, and sets it in a musical frame of his own devising: a short, astringent 'Praeludium' and four extended... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…