1 January 1900
Audiophile Audition, USA
Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘Sonics are first rate, as usual with Hyperion. Let’s hear it for obscure piano concertos!’ (Audiophile Audition, USA)
1 January 1900

Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘The performances are all that one could expect, the music shown in the best possible light. Markus Becker is both virtuoso and musician’ (Classical Source)
1 January 1900

Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘Markus Becker delivers heroic accounts of all three concertos, and Michael Sanderling's Berlin musicians bring buoyant orchestral textures to the mix’ (International Piano)
1 January 1900
The Observer
Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘These pieces, which burst with … memorable tunes and lashings of showy arpeggios, are played with admirable swagger by Markus Becker and are a welcome addition to Hyperion's exhaustive study of the Romantic Piano Concerto’ (The Observer)
1 January 1900

Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘Altogether an enjoyable disc for those who would explore the unfrequented byways of Romanticism’ (BBC Music Magazine)
1 January 1900

Draeseke & Jadassohn: Piano Concertos
CDA67636 

‘The busy piano-writing in these two world premieres is brilliant and passionate, the scoring [Jadassohn] is textbook 1887 and the musical structure inventive … Hyperion's A-team for concertos (Andrew Keener and Simon Eadon) is on top form, while the Berlin orchestra and Michael Sanderling provide crisp support for the sparkling and industrious Markus Becker who leaves the impression not only of having an affection for the three works but also that he has been playing them all his life’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs
Dreyschock & Kullak: Piano Concertos
CDA67086 

‘This is one of the very finest of Hyperion's 'Romantic Piano Concertos' series’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
1 January 1900

Dreyschock & Kullak: Piano Concertos
CDA67086 

‘Performed with the kind of zestful spirit and communicative flair that has rightly won this series so many plaudits’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
Classic CD
Dreyschock & Kullak: Piano Concertos
CDA67086 

‘I can't stop playing the disc: the anticipation of a number of ear-tickling passages, notably in the Kullak, is too delicious for words. Effervescent, lightweight music transformed into entertaining and compelling minor masterpieces’ (Classic CD)
1 January 1900

Dreyschock & Kullak: Piano Concertos
CDA67086 

‘Delightful concertos. Kullak's in particular strikes me as a gem. Piers Lane plays both with dexterity and wit. A winner’ (The Sunday Times)
1 January 1900
The Observer
Dubois: Piano Concertos
Studio Master: CDA67931  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Dubois' music—beautifully crafted, highly tuneful and harmonically daring—gains a new stature here in the mercurial hands of Cédric Tiberghien and Andrew Manze’ (The Observer)
1 January 1900

Dubois: Piano Concertos
Studio Master: CDA67931  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Appealing melodic invention and imaginative orchestration … the Concerto-capriccioso unfolds with a continuous plethora of ideas eagerly taken up by Cédric Tiberghien and the ever-alert Andrew Manze … Hyperion's customary top-drawer recording’ (Gramophone)
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