Analekta

He shapes and phrases the music with a keen eye (or ear) on its dialogic potential, driving forwards energetically without bullying or indulging in display for its own sake. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…

Wan brings to the table a poetic litheness, precision, silvery purity and tonal clarity, inf lecting Schumann’s limpid phrases with a gentle ease, complementing RichardHamelin’s velvet-gloved... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Beside this, other recent violin concertos shrivel: this is a work that sings and soars with a visionary beauty rare in contemporary music. Against a vague, swirling background, the violinist... — The Times, 31st July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are quite excellent, as I’ve come to expect from this source, and the sound is very good. — MusicWeb International, February 2024 More…

[Kreutzer] From the very beginning the grand nobility of the opening gestures for each instrument are gorgeously captured by both players, and one therefore knows immediately that this will... — Fanfare, July/August 2022 More…

Both works merit attention, the more so in performances, led by the pianist Alain Lefèvre, that are so eloquently expressive, so sure in ensemble and so alert to the music's arresting fluxes... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 More…