Mirare

This rather stiff and deliberate playing works well for the clockwork grotesquery, but misses the joie de vivre and ferocity necessary to bring Prokofiev's music alive. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

the Chamber Concerto is not easily approachable and I don't think it is wrong to try and sweeten it with a little Viennese schmaltz. The title of Mirare's disc suggests that that is exactly what... — International Record Review, July 2011 More…

His sense of energy and concentration throughout is certainly impressive, and it is interesting to hear this important, underperformed work [the Barraqué] played with such conviction....This... — International Record Review, February 2012 More…

His rubato is of a caressing warmth and suppleness, a constant ebb and flow that characterises every aspect of Granados's sumptuously bejewelled score, and his romantic leeway is very much his... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 More…

Macleod's voice is as imbued in this music as the Ricercar Consort, whose offerings on Mirare over the years are always exquisitely rendered. — Gramophone Magazine More…

A happy marriage of pungent Estonian choral singing and French pianism, as one of Liszt's most distinctive works is heard in the setting of plainchant and religiously inspired piano solos. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Laloum displays great wrists and reflexes in the fastest parts of the first movement, and the lovely B theme is suitably expansive and well voiced. The scherzo is full of vigour and playfulness,... — International Record Review, December 2013 More…