‘Some of the most astonishing playing of the decade’ (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

‘Every Hamelin recording is an Event, and this is not to be missed by anyone who cares for genuinely transcendental playing’ (Fanfare, USA)

«Une fois de plus des pages extrêmement difficiles soulignent une maîtrise digitale impressionante» (Diapason, France)

‘This is amongst the most spectacular piano issues of the decade’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Superlatives fail me: just go out and buy it!’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘A feast for lovers of titanic piano playing’ (American Record Guide)

‘An exceptional disc by one of the keyboard phenomena of today … jaw dropping … an awesome display of virtuoso pianism’ (Classic CD)

‘Titanic … awe-inspiring … truly phenomenal … a disc I cannot recommend too highly. Buy it!’ (Gramophone)

‘Terrifying virtuosity, scorching pianism, ineffable beauty and a mind equal to his fingers, Hamelin is one of 19th-century piano music's most meteoric talents ever to blaze the pianistic firmament’ (Soundscapes, Australia)

‘The most dazzling piano disc of the year’ (The Guardian)

‘The multifaceted sound world is intoxicating, and the best parts are indisputably great … Thierry Fischer conducts the superb Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a definitive performance’ (Opera News)

‘Frank Martin’s Der Sturm, a setting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a revelation. By turns ethereal and richly textured, melodic and atonal, mysterious and literal, it is indeed such stuff as dreams are made on. Why it is not better known? … Robert Holl is a commanding Prospero, his resonant voice laden with authority, wisdom and all the cares of the world. At the end of a long opera his massive central role closes with an extended Epilogue that would test fainter hearts, but Holl never falters’ (Classical Source)