'This is a magnificent release. Shaham and Erez have thoroughly absorbed a style that demands continual flexibility, playing together with such ease that it's easy to forget the art and care that have gone into achieving such beautiful ensemble' (Gramophone)

'Virtuoso performances from the Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham that get to the heart of the style … The playing fizzes with energy and suavity' (Daily Telegraph)

'Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez complement each other perfectly here, evincing fire, fury, and sweet sadness, and they act as a brilliant showcase for Joachim's work both as an arranger and a composer' (BBC Music Magazine)

'On this recording, the Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham gives it all he's got, digging deep with a fabulous flair for this romantic style and relishing every juicy slide and glittering arabesque. Excellent accompaniment, too, from Erez' (Classic FM Magazine)

'These deservedly popular pieces overflow with charm and infectious melody … Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez sound right inside the idiom, playing with an infectiously relaxed bravado wherever necessary, while inflecting those timeless phrases with a suave confidence and relaxed inevitability that prevents them ever straying into camp 'geepsy' territory … There is a subtly understated charm about these performances which I enjoyed a great deal, gently cajoling us into its colourful sound-world rather than hustling us in. Most importantly, Shaham always gives the music a distinct Brahmsian lilt …Many recordings provide just the Hungarian Dances, but Hyperion includes a typically inventive 'filler' in the form of Joachim's E minor Varations … Calum MacDonald provides an exemplary booklet note, and the recording is convincingly balanced, capturing Shaham's lithe, glistening tone to a tee' (International Record Review)

'This recording by Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez is probably the most dazzling that I have heard' (American Record Guide)

'Though the pieces themselves may be highly virtuosic (on second thought, forget the ‘may be’), Shaham hardly allows these built-in difficulties to be obvious, so intent does he seem in communicating their impassioned rhetoric…Arnon Erez plays the piano parts of Brahms’s pieces with a liveliness and sympathy…Urgently recommended' (Fanfare, USA)

'Eine grandiose CD, die ich jedem Violinmusik-Freund ans Herz legen möchte: Johannes Brahms’ Ungarische Tänze, vom großen Violinisten Joseph Joachim aus der vierhändigen Klavierversion für Violine und Klavier arrangiert. Hagai Shaham und Arnon Erez servieren sie absolut „exciting“ - mit Herz, Seele und natürlich umwerfender Bravour. Hagai Shaham (offenbar nicht mit Gil Shaham verwandt) entlockt seinem Instrument einen geradezu erotisch warmen Ton (was der Engländer „thrilling“ nennt). Das macht auch Joseph Joachims Variationen in e-Moll so schön aufregend prickelnd. – KAUFEN!' (Der neue Merker)