Jac van Steen

Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

This is a valuable release and very well recorded…[the Mignone] is certainly more enjoyable than any of those by Mignone’s more famous compatriot Villa-Lobos. You can hear in the course of its... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

A breath of springlike air arrives with this programme of French works for piano and orchestra: subtle, sparkling and poised, the three pieces complement one another very well…Tryon's playing... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Christian Poltéra inevitably courts comparison with the 1975 EMI disc of Rostropovich, for whom both works were written. …in technique there's nothing to choose between them. …the most notable... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Throughout, the set testifies to the courage of those for whom music became an existential assertion of identity in the face of atrocity...The sincerity of Pameijer’s playing impresses and moves... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015 More…