Jac van Steen

Tryon's second disc for Somm once more distils her very recognisable virtues. Whether in Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss or Dohnanyi, her articulation remains clear and precise, her approach lyrical... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

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 programme of works chosen for their meditative qualities, all offering something slightly different. Safe performances, though with Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre it becomes more lively. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

You can never have enough of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, a piece tailor-made to soothe and delight during stressful times. It gets better and better with repeated listenings... We’re... — The Arts Desk, October 2020 More…

[Valerie Tyron] modifies the composer’s Sturm und Drang in his D minor Concerto K466 with all of her impeccable taste and musicianship. Closer to Clara Haskil’s sobriety than to Argerich’s tempest-tossed... — Classical Music, June 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with... — Sunday Times, 30th March 2014 More…

At 24, Weill’s iconic Berlin-cabaret sound is already identifiable: the dance-like flute solo in the ‘Serenata’; and the rollicking finale. Soloist Tamás Kocsis, leader of the Ulster Orchestra,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) /. 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…