‘The Leonore Piano Trio, with none other than Tim Horton on piano, delivers clean, light performances that respect the music's craft without trying to make of it more than is there, and they're aided greatly by superb engineering work from Hyperion in the prime British venue for chamber music, the Wyastone Estate Concert Hall. Recommended for Romantic chamber music buffs’ (AllMusic, USA)» More

‘Recommended for Mendelssohn fans, as indeed is Shelley's entire series’ (AllMusic, USA)» More

‘The feelings are so genuine that one cannot fail to be affected by the music’s fragile beauty … [Stephen Hough] gives a powerful and compelling performance’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘The Leonore Piano Trio has much to offer in regard to its meticulous observing of Lalo’s wide-ranging dynamics … on balance, this is the finest release with all three Lalo trios in the present and past catalogs’ (Classics Today)» More

‘A real discovery’ (The Sunday Times)» More

'This clarity, combined with the live nature of these performances, shows the choir (and its chapel’s famous acoustic) in a different light … a certain exuberance and spontaneity add to the choir’s customary technical precision' (Limelight, Australia)» More

„Howard Shelley spielt mit Vitalität, Schwung und bestechender Leichtigkeit. Seine Klangkaskaden werden vom Ulster Orchestra elegant und mit federnd-bewegungsreichem Klang eingekleidet“ (Pizzicato, Luxembourg)» More

‘Light-footed, witty and intelligent … pure joy’ (The Observer)» More

‘Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players make a persuasive case for his Piano Concertos Nos 1, 5 and 6, where classical refinement and ebullience go hand in hand’ (Financial Times)» More

‘What wonderful music! … handsomely delivered by Liebeck’ (Classical Source)» More

‘To explore the tracks on this recording is to explore Rostropovich himself, and Gerhardt’s performances themselves approach this mission in different ways … Gerhardt mostly eschew Rostropovich’s own deliberate roughness in favour of an equally grabbing fluttering, puck-like finesse’ (Gramophone)

‘The excellent singing is full-bodied and lustrous throughout, with just the right sense of momentum’ (The Observer)» More