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Under Pienaar’s fingers this Byrd soars! — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[the quartet] play with sensual directness and a vividly attuned awareness of harmonic contours in the early F major Sonata…despite being one of Handel’s best chamber compositions, this gets... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Throughout there are fireworks and much technical skill...Meyers’s artistry, however, has its glutinous side. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Brook Street Band play all the works indisputably by Handel as well as those generally accepted as part of the canon…The music, dare I say it, is on occasion uneven in quality, but the finest... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jon Lord has concentrated on composition since leaving Deep Purple. Lord's music is compellingly sonorous, his programmatic narratives are crystal-clear, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 More…

His avowed aim in playing Mozart is to avoid the elegance and gracefulness of traditional performance-practice, and to bring out instead the music's nervous energy. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

as different as can be - yet without ever sounding contrived or perverse...Simply put, he makes the Goldbergs sound more like that other supreme set of piano variations, Beethoven's Diabelli... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Most remarkable of all is the Sonata in A minor, a truly virtuoso piece which is said, not without justification, to have inspired Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. It is given here... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…