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Ilya Kaler is a near ideal interpreter of these works and the delightful Nocturne and Tarantella which serve as makeweight. His playing certainly has the requisite passion, but he also has a... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, More…

Antoni Wit and his players undoubtedly have the measure of this music, but it is the singing of the soprano Iwona Hossa that lends this disc its special distinction… superb value. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, More…

Szymanowski's Symphony No. 2 shows him beginning to approach his first maturity as a composer… In Symphony No. 3, composed five years later, the mature Szymanowski has arrived. Again, this... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, More…

The Goldner Quartet's performances are a model of conviction and insight. — BBC Music Magazine More…

This CD offers a cross-section of Szymanowski's styles as a composer for the keyboard, from the early First Sonata (always described as post-Chopin and post-Scriabin but, Roscoe convincingly... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…Martin Roscoe has compiled a programme that serves to underline the composer's extraordinary journey from conventional late-Romanticism via the complex and almost mystic impressionism of the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, More…

Exaggeration and excess are certainly major ingredients of Szymanowski’s musical language, and the question for interpreters is whether to exaggerate them further or to temper them. Martin Roscoe... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

If I find myself on the whole preferring Roscoe it is because I prefer Naxos's ample and natural piano sound to Nimbus's, which I find rather disembodied and, at the top of the instrument in... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Naxos offers an exceptionally clear recording of these [works by Szymanowski]...Having a Polish conductor and orchestra…adds to the idiomatic feel of each, with the magical orchestral sounds... — Gramophone Magazine More…