‘Very likeable music from Viennese-born Carl Czerny … tuneful, bouncy, glittering and song-like; imaginative, too, and requiring tact, style and virtuosity from the soloist, which Howard Shelley supplies in abundance’ (Hi-Fi Critic)» More

‘Danny Driver's stylish and immaculate playing makes an outstanding case for some technically demanding music. One for English music aficionados’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Danny Driver rises seemingly effortlessly to the fearsome challenges of the piece and produces a performance highlighting the shape of the work’ (Audiophile)

‘Driver posssesses an unerring sense of direction, while enabling the music to sound almost improvised. The grandeur of the finale is perfeclty conveyed. Competition comes from Paul Jacobs (Continuum) and Mark Bebbington (Somm). Neither version boasts the excellent of Hyperion's recording. Driver is the most exciting of the players, too … a fabulous performance’ (International Piano)

‘Shades of Liszt and Wagner haunt the Piano Sonata completed in 1905 by the English composer Benjamin Dale, but this is more to do with matters of harmony, texture and the odd reminiscence than with any wholesale aping. Danny Driver’s superb performance shows a confident composer, imaginative in sustaining a span of 45 minutes’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘Danny Driver [is] technically superb, he has the gift of innate musicanship that illuminates the music's every twist and turn’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘Driver brings a stunning brilliance … with a performance of this calibre, a brilliant recording quality from Hyperion and an unjustly neglected work, I can't but nominate this release in any case’ (International Record Review)

‘Here is a disc to warm the hearts and minds of those who treasure romantic nostalgia … Benjamin Dale's hugely ambitious and unwieldy Piano Sonata is assuredly not for lovers of economy … it is doubtful that [the sonata] has ever been played with a more shining commitment than by Danny Driver. His performance ranges from thundering rhetoric to a whispering poetic delicacy … a pianist of such magical warmth and finesse … Hyperion's sound and presentation are as immaculate as ever … this issue is as moving as it is superlative’ (Gramophone)

'As always, The Smith Quartet's infectious enthusiasm and spirited playing belies its vanilla moniker (with apologies to any readers called Smith). An enjoyable overall concept' (Classic FM)» More

'A diverse collection of 14 works is bound together by quality of composition and performance, testimony to the fecund relationship between modern dance and contemporary composers. The vibrant energy of Andrew Poppy's Definitely Disco, intricate delicacy of John Adams' Pavane: She's so fine, staccato bustle of Gabriel Prokofiev's BogIe Move and wistfulness of Jon Lord's Zarabanda Solitariax—like a box of excellent chocolates, inviting frequent tasting' (Classical Music Magazine)

‘This is an exhilarating programme all told, from a greatly gifted young artist. Excellently recorded, too’ (The Times)

‘Breathtaking’ (The Guardian)