‘Stephen Hough plays this music with total commitment, tremendous panache, and stunning virtuosity’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Throughout, Hough plays with an intensity and brilliance’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘There is much to enjoy in these two brash and captivating works … [First Concerto] is exciting music, and Hough plays it head down, full throttle and with glassy clarity … [Second Concerto] Hough performs it lovingly, as one would expect’ (Gramophone)

‘If you like big tunes and lush neo-romanticism, opulently scored, you will love it’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘[Liebermann]’s two piano concertos get performances of upmost virtuosity from Stephen Hough … Hough is commanding in both (concertos), and the six simple solo miniatures … yield wonders in Hough’s hands’ (Birmingham Evening Mail)

‘There is an engaging emotional path running through, from the nostalgic resignation of late Liszt—three stark but lyrical transcriptions—to Adès' stirring title piece … the two men secure what Adès describes as the inner illumination and rapture of Fauré's 1921 Second Sonata, investing its Finale with the sinew and thrust of a younger Ravel’ (The New Zealand Herald)

‘Isserlis plays with almost tangible intensity and soul, while Adès finds charm and natural expression at every turn—a true musical dialogue’ (Financial Times)

‘Something very special. Their choice of repertory here—devised as an extended upbeat to Adès's Lieux retrouvés at the end of the programme—is unusual, memorable, and wonderfully performed from start to finish’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Lieux retrouvés is some of the most enjoyable and readily accessible contemporary music you're likely to encounter … this music, like everything else on this recording, is brilliantly played by Isserlis and Adès. Unreservedly recommended’ (International Record Review)

‘This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital … the performance's sheer panache is as persuasive as the tonal refinement preceding it, and the recording throughout gives the players all the space and atmosphere they need to characterise the varied moods and textures of an unusually rewarding programme’ (Gramophone)

‘Isserlis's brilliant recital disc with Adès makes an admirably integrated whole. The Proustianly titled Lieux retrouvés, which Adès wrote for the cellist and himself, is, in effect, a four-movement sonata whose figuration and part-writing knock at the door of the complex to seek the visionary. Isserlis is furiously lyrical and concentrated here, but no less so in the other works, which offer aptly Romantic-modern context for Adès's inspiration. Fauré's beautiful Second Sonata is dispatched not merely with superb elan, but with almost desperate intensity from both players’ (The Sunday Times)

‘One of the finest examples of Gallic song performance’ (MusicWeb International)