Reviews

'If you like your Bach on modern piano, this surely must be the sort of performance you would want ....'

'Yet this captivating recital really goes into overdrive with Ravel’s Sonata, an elusive masterwork whose relative coolness of expression is here embraced with an alluring suppleness and tonal sophistication that ravishes the senses ... More please!'

'CPE Bach’s conversational suppleness positively beams in the face of the more sober, twice-reimagined (Mozart and Café Zimmermann) excerpt from The Art of Fugue.'

'Robin Ticciati, however, succeeds here in a downright stellar performance.'

Choral & Song Choice: 'As with all their releases, John Butt and the Dunedins approach the scores from a scholarly angle ... but it’s the heart rather than the head that informs their music-making.'

'Aether is like few other vocal recordings I’ve encountered. Far more than a showcase for Sarah Aristidou, an astounding French-Cypriot soprano with a strong voice and supremely high coloratura extension, [it is] a one-of-a-kind recording that I hope you will audition.'

'The young Trio Marie Soldat shows great promise in the field of 'historically informed' Romantic music: look out for their next albums.'

'In the variations, Fournel transcends every technical obstacle to land on a superior atmospheric level. Next to a sparkle of Hungarian dance, we swear we heard some Haydn jollity, Mozartian balefulness, Wagnerian damnation and Schubertesque thigh chatter. Food for end-of-year lists.'

'You really hear the commitment, and it comes across as a sort of fearlessness which I really admire.'