Browse: Tchaikovsky - Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Donohoe, while never underplaying the Sonata’s moments of explosive rhetoric, finds a more poetic, Chopinesque poise…Instead of being rushed off its feet, the final possesses a glorious, Lisztian... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The tour de force in this programme of piano rolls comes in the fast sections of Tchaikovsky's Dumka and the Bizet Carmen Variations, both of which Horowitz dispatches at superhuman speed. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For musicality, virtuosity, and originality, Geniušas earns the strongest recommendation. — Fanfare, May/June 2022 More…

A varied and sensitively planned programme...Valešová commands a full, rounded tone but passes on facile virtuosity in favour of something mellower. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Insightful and affectionate performances of the rarely-heard Norwegian Folk Song arrangements of Grieg are a particular delight here. Grainger's Tchaikovsky is equally discerning. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…